等輩

Chinese

		class; rank; grade class; rank; grade; equal to; same as; wait for; await; et cetera; and so on	contemporaries; generation; lifetime
trad. (等輩)		等	輩
simp. (等辈)		等	辈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): děngbèi

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄥˇ ㄅㄟˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: děngbèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄥˇ ㄅㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: děngbèi
    • Wade–Giles: têng³-pei⁴
    • Yale: děng-bèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: deengbey
    • Palladius: дэнбэй (dɛnbɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ peɪ̯⁵¹/

Noun

等輩

1. (literary) someone of the same generation; fellow; fellow official
2. (literary) people of this kind; such people

   • 它向全世界宣告，紅軍是英雄好漢，帝國主義者和他們的走狗蔣介石等輩則是完全無用的。 [MSC, trad.]
     它向全世界宣告，红军是英雄好汉，帝国主义者和他们的走狗蒋介石等辈则是完全无用的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1935, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論反對日本帝國主義的策略》 (On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Tā xiàng quánshìjiè xuāngào, Hóngjūn shì yīngxiónghǎohàn, dìguózhǔyìzhě hé tāmen de zǒugǒu Jiǎng Jièshí děngbèi zé shì wánquán wúyòng de. [Pinyin]

     It has proclaimed to the world that the Red Army is an army of heroes, while the imperialists and their running dogs, Chiang Kai-shek and his like, are impotent.