red guard

See also: Red Guard

English

Etymology

From red +‎ guard.

Noun

red guard (plural red guards)

1. A member of any of several organizations known as Red Guards or Red Guard.

   What on Earth could be next, the Chinese red guard-style maltreatment of language learners and yodelers?

   • 2011, Henry Kissinger, On China‎^[1], New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:

     In Beijing, Red Guard assaults destroyed 4,922 of the capital’s 6,843 designated “places of cultural or historical interest.” The Forbidden City itself was reportedly saved only by Zhou Enlai’s personal intervention.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) hongweibing, hungweiping

Translations

Red Guards (China)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅衛兵／红卫兵 (zh) (hóngwèibīng)

• Finnish: punakaartilainen (fi)
• Japanese: 紅衛兵 (こうえいへい, kōeihei)
• Korean: 홍위병(紅衛兵) (hong'wibyeong)
• Polish: czerwonogwardzista (pl) m, hunwejbin (pl) m
• Russian: хунвэйби́н (ru) m (xunvɛjbín), хунвейби́н (ru) m (xunvɛjbín), красногварде́ец (ru) m (krasnogvardéjec), кра́сный (ru) m (krásnyj), красноарме́ец (ru) m (krasnoarméjec) (a member of the Red Army)
• Swedish: rödgardist c
• Thai: ยุวชนแดง (yú wá chon daeng)
• Vietnamese: hồng vệ binh