Memory phrase for the character: 革

革

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Meaning animal hide, leather, to remove, to expel (from office)

Pronunciation

gé

Explanation

Center: peeled skin 囗, rest: pictogram for a horned 廿 animal with backbone 丨 from above

Mnemonic
 
Horned animals have a skin 囗 of leather.

Radicals

革 untanned leatherA horned 廿 animal seen from above with a backbone 丨 and broad hips 一 has a skin 囗 of leather around its torso. - Also this radical 皮 stands for leather.
廿 twenty
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 Vocabulary

革命军 gé mìng jūn  revolutionary army
改革 gǎi gé  reform; to reform
大革命 dà gé mìng  great revolution
民主革命 mín zhǔ gé mìng  democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
辛亥革命 Xīn hài gé mìng  the Xinhai revolution of 1911 that ended the Qing dynasty
革命 gé mìng  revolution; revolutionary (politics)
资产阶级革命 zī chǎn jiē jí gé mìng  bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
反革命 fǎn gé mìng  counter-revolutionary
变革 biàn gé  transform; change
革新 gé xīn  innovation
文化大革命 Wén huà Dà gé mìng  Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
文化大革命 Wén huà Dà gé mìng  

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