知青

zhīqīng

noun #70,455

Meanings

1 educated youth
2 sent-down youth

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Examples

HSK 4

我爸爸年轻时当过知青，在农村待了八年。

Wǒ bàba niánqīng shí dāng guo zhīqīng, zài nóngcūn dāi le bā nián.

My dad was a sent-down youth when he was young and spent eight years in the countryside.

HSK 7-9

很多当年的知青后来回到城市，写下了自己在乡下的经历。

Hěnduō dāngnián de zhīqīng hòulái huídào chéngshì, xiěxià le zìjǐ zài xiāngxia de jīnglì.

Many former sent-down youths later went back to the cities and wrote about their years in the countryside.

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history

Short for 知识青年 'educated youth'. From 1968 to the late 1970s about 17 million city school-leavers were sent to villages and border farms in the 上山下乡 movement, and most later returned to the cities. The word lives on in memoirs, novels and films about those years.

Stroke Order

知 zhī

青 qīng