革かく命めい
Meanings
Noun
1. revolution
I know about the revolution.
2. 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)
Kanji used
leather
continued existence
Pitch accent
か
くめい
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Used in vocabulary (60 in total)
revolutionary army
revolutionaries
French Revolution (1789-1799)
revolutionary government
Russian Revolution (1917-1923)
counterrevolution
revolutionary; child of the revolution; man of revolutionary temperament
people's revolution; popular revolution
revolutionary war for independence
(China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76)
July Revolution (France, 1830)
February Revolution (France, 1848); February Revolution (Russia, 1917)
German Revolution (1918-1919)
Xinhai Revolution (of China; 1911)
March Revolution (Austria and Germany, 1848); February Revolution (Russia, 1917)
agricultural revolution; agrarian revolution
Glorious Revolution (England; 1688-1689); Revolution of 1688
scientific revolution
revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)
sexual revolution
Cuban Revolution (1953-1959)
East European Revolution (of 1989); fall of Communism
May 68 (period of civil unrest in France; May-June 1968)
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana
literary revolution (of China; post-1917 emphasis on vernacular forms)
Mexican Revolution (1910)
Jasmine Revolution (2010-2011)
consumer revolution; consumption revolution
Green Revolution; Third Agricultural Revolution
Young Turk Revolution (Ottoman Empire, 1908)
October Revolution (Russia, 1917); German Revolution (1918-1919)
White Paper Revolution (2022 COVID-19 protests in China); A4 Revolution
theory of permanent revolution (esp. Trotsky)
Iranian Revolution (1978)
Orange Revolution (Ukraine, 2004-2005)
colour revolution; color revolution
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Iran); IRGC
Umbrella Revolution (protests in Hong Kong in 2014)
Examples (23 in total)
I know about the revolution.
The government was overthrown in a revolution.
The dynasty was overthrown in the revolution.