公社

gōngshè
noun #28,983

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 commune
  2. 2 people's commune (historical)
  3. 3 community cooperative

Examples

Tā de fùmǔ dāngnián dōu zài rénmín gōngshè láodòng.
His parents both worked in the people's commune in those days.
Bālí gōngshè shì lìshǐ shàng zhòngyào de zhèngzhì shìjiàn.
The Paris Commune was an important political event in history.

Tips

history
In China, 人民公社 (Rénmín Gōngshè, People's Communes) were the basic administrative units in rural areas from 1958 to the early 1980s, central to Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward policy.

Stroke Order

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