白色恐怖

Chinese

		white; reactionary	terrifying; dreadful; horrific terrifying; dreadful; horrific; frightening; terror; dread; horror
trad. (白色恐怖)		白色	恐怖
simp. #(白色恐怖)		白色	恐怖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): báisè kǒngbù

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄙㄜˋ ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ sik¹ hung² bou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: báisè kǒngbù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄙㄜˋ ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: báisè kǒngbù
    • Wade–Giles: pai²-sê⁴ kʻung³-pu⁴
    • Yale: bái-sè kǔng-bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairseh koongbuh
    • Palladius: байсэ кунбу (bajsɛ kunbu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ sɤ⁵¹ kʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baak⁶ sik¹ hung² bou³
    • Yale: baahk sīk húng bou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ sik⁷ hung² bou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ xig¹ hung² bou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚² sɪk̚⁵ hʊŋ³⁵ pou̯³³/

Noun

白色恐怖

1. white terror

   • 以前土豪劣紳的殘忍，土豪劣紳造成的農村白色恐怖是這樣，現在農民起來槍斃幾個土豪劣紳，造成一點小小的鎮壓反革命派的恐怖現象，有什麼理由說不應該？ [MSC, trad.]
     以前土豪劣绅的残忍，土豪劣绅造成的农村白色恐怖是这样，现在农民起来枪毙几个土豪劣绅，造成一点小小的镇压反革命派的恐怖现象，有什么理由说不应该？ [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Yǐqián tǔháo lièshēn de cánrěn, tǔháo lièshēn zàochéng de nóngcūn báisè kǒngbù shì zhèyàng, xiànzài nóngmín qǐlái qiāngbì jǐ ge tǔháo lièshēn, zàochéng yīdiǎn xiǎoxiǎo de zhènyā fǎngémìngpài de kǒngbù xiànxiàng, yǒu shénme lǐyóu shuō bù yīnggāi? [Pinyin]

     Such was the cruelty of the local tyrants and evil gentry in former days, such was the White terror they created in the countryside, and now that the peasants have risen and shot a few and created just a little terror in suppressing the counter-revolutionaries, is there any reason for saying they should not do so?

Proper noun

白色恐怖

1. (historical) White Terror (the suppression of political dissidents in Taiwan by the Kuomintang (1949–1987))