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Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei
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20多岁的汪精卫
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汪精卫

汪精衛
Wāng Jīngwèi
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Wang Jingwei, senior KMT politician turned head of the Japanese-backed Nanjing collaborationist government

About Wang Jingwei

1883–1944 · 政治家 politician

Revolutionary who tried to assassinate the Qing prince regent in 1910 and later led a wing of the Kuomintang, then from 1940 headed the government Japan set up in Nanjing. In Chinese his name is a byword for 汉奸, traitor.

Also called  汪兆铭

Examples

HSK 7-9
汪精卫在历史上被视为汉奸。
Wāng Jīngwèi zài lìshǐ shàng bèi shìwéi hànjiān.
Wang Jingwei is historically regarded as a traitor to the Chinese people.
HSK 7-9
年轻时的汪精卫曾是革命党人。
Niánqīng shí de Wāng Jīngwèi céng shì gémìngdǎng rén.
The young Wang Jingwei was once a revolutionary.

Tips

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精卫 was a pen name he took in 1905 for a revolutionary paper, after the bird of 精卫填海 that tries to fill the sea with pebbles. His poem on being captured in 1910 has the lines 引刀成一快，不负少年头: 'one quick stroke of the blade, worthy of this young head'.

Stroke Order

汪 wāng
精 jīng
卫 wèi