赵紫阳

趙紫陽
Zhào Zǐyáng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005)
  2. 2 reformist CCP General Secretary 1987-1989, purged after Tiananmen

Examples

HSK 7-9
Zhào Zǐyáng shì Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng de qián zǒngshūjì.
Zhao Ziyang was a former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
HSK 7-9
Zhào Zǐyáng zài Tiān'ānmén shìjiàn hòu bèi ruǎnjìn.
Zhao Ziyang was placed under house arrest after the Tiananmen incident.

Tips

history
Premier then Party chief, Zhao visited student hunger-strikers at Tiananmen on 19 May 1989 and told them through a loudspeaker 我们来得太晚了 ('We've come too late') - his last public appearance. Spent the next 15 years under house arrest in Beijing; his name is still censored inside mainland China.

Stroke Order

Zhào
yáng