cách mạng
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Vietnamese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 革命, composed of 革 (“to change”) and 命 (“the Mandate of Heaven”), from Japanese 革命 (“revolution”), itself borrowed from Literary Chinese 革命 (gémìng, “to change from one dynasty to another”).
This form has the Southern reading mạng for the second character.
Pronunciation
Noun
- revolution
- 2011 [1960 April 22], Hồ Chí Minh, “Con đường dẫn tôi đến Chủ nghĩa Lênin”, in Hồ Chí Minh – Toàn tập, 3rd edition, volume 12, page 562; English translation from “The Path which Led Me to Leninism”, in Selected Works of Ho Chi Minh, volume IV, 1962, page 450:
- Nếu đồng chí không lên án chủ nghĩa thực dân, nếu đồng chí không bênh vực các dân tộc thuộc địa thì đồng chí làm cái cách mạng gì?
- If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?