HSK 6 · Society

革命 gémìng “revolution” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 革命 means

  1. revolution
  2. revolutionary
  3. to revolt (against sb or sth)
  4. to revolutionise (sth)
  5. (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命)

Measure word 次 cì · 一次革命 yí cì gémìng

How to say 革命

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale革gé2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale命mìng4th tone, falling

革命 in a sentence

  1. 科技领域爆发了一场革命。

    Kējì lǐngyù bàofā le yì chǎng gémìng.

    A revolution has broken out in the field of technology.

    Sentence #13994834 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我在写一篇有关法国大革命的论文。

    Wǒ zài xiě yì piān yǒuguān Fǎguó Dàgémìng de lùnwén.

    I’m writing a paper on the French Revolution.

    Sentence #891438 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 革命之后，法国成为了一个共和国。

    Gémìng zhīhòu, Fǎguó chéngwéi le yí ge gònghéguó.

    After the revolution, France became a republic.

    Sentence #796978 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 革命 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 革 (gé) drawn as one shape
革géanimal hide

革 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 命 (mìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
命mìnglife
  • 令command · líng
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 革命

革 9 strokes · 命 8 strokes

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革命 (gémìng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 革命 (gémìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 革命

Words with 革

改革gǎigé · reform皮革pígé · leather

Words with 命

生命shēngmìng · life寿命shòumìng · life span命令mìnglìng · order命运mìngyùn · fate性命xìngmìng · life (of a person or animal)命名mìngmíng · to name拼命pīnmìng · desperately任命rènmìng · to appoint使命shǐmìng · mission要命yàomìng · terribly

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福利fúlì · welfare俘虏fúlǔ · prisoner of war复兴fùxīng · revival纲领gānglǐng · guiding principles个体gètǐ · individual公安局gōng'ānjú · public security bureau共和国gònghéguó · republic公民gōngmín · citizen

FAQs

革命 (gémìng) means “revolution” or “revolutionary”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gémìng: gé with a 2nd tone, then mìng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 革命 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 次 (cì). For example, one revolution is 一次革命 (yí cì gémìng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type geming with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 革命 from the suggestions. Typing geming into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
革命 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.