Eighth Route Army

English

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 八路軍／八路军 (Bālùjūn).

Proper noun

Eighth Route Army

1. (historical, military) a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party that fought the Japanese military and its puppet armies in both conventional and guerrilla warfare during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Translations

group army

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 八路軍／八路军 (zh) (Bālùjūn), 八路 (zh) (Bālù)

• Japanese: 八路軍 (Hachirogun)
• Tibetan: པ་ལུའུ་ཅུན (pa lu'u cun)