革

gé

HSK 53 readings

“Animal hide” in Chinese is 革 (gé).

Other characters with the syllable ge: see all 13 →

Meaning

animal hide
leather
to reform

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to remove
to expel (from office)

Example

我支持政治改革。

I support political reform.

From 改革 · Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Readings

géanimal hide / leather / to reform / to remove / to expel (from office)
jíurgent (archaic, variant of 急)

Stroke Order

9 strokes

Words containing 革

改革gǎigéreformHSK 5 革新géxīnto innovateHSK 6 变革biàngéto transformHSK 7-9 革命gémìngto withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning)HSK 7-9 改革开放gǎigé kāifàngreform and opening up (Chinese policy introduced in 1978)HSK 7-9

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