打麻雀运动 in English Da3 Ma2 que4 Yun4 dong4 Meaning

Meanings

  • the Great Sparrow Campaign or the Four Pests Campaign, one of the actions during the Great Leap Forward 大躍進|大跃进[Da4 yue4 jin4] aiming to eliminate four pests: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows

Simplified Characters

打 麻 雀 运 动

Traditional Characters

打 麻 雀 運 動

Pinyin

Da3 Ma2 que4 Yun4 dong4

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

打da3dozen (loanword) 麻ma2variant of 麻[ma2] 雀que4a freckle 运yun4to move 动dong4(of sth) to move