散匪

sǎnfěi

noun

Meanings

1 scattered bandits; stragglers and outlaws (after a defeat or breakup)

Characters

scattered; loose

Examples

战后山区还有不少散匪作乱。

Zhàn hòu shānqū hái yǒu bùshǎo sǎnfěi zuòluàn.

After the war, scattered bandits were still causing trouble in the mountains.

部队进山清剿散匪。

Bùduì jìn shān qīngjiǎo sǎnfěi.

The troops went into the mountains to mop up the scattered bandits.

Tips

register

Historical/military register, common in writing about civil-war-era 'mopping up' (清剿) operations and Republican-era banditry. 散 here is sǎn ('scattered'), not sàn ('to disperse').

Stroke Order

散 sàn

匪 fěi