貧下中農 pín xià zhōng nóng

poor and lower-middle peasants in Mao era

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
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Definitions

  1. 1. (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)

Characters

Character Meaning
poor; deficient; inadequate
down; below; to go down
in; within; middle
agriculture; peasant; to farm