かくめい
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. revolution
2. 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)
Kanji used
leather
continued existence
Pitch accent
くめい
Top 7300
Used in vocabulary (52 in total)
revolutionary army
revolutionaries
revolutionary (e.g. technology)
the Industrial Revolution
revolutionary government
Russian Revolution
counterrevolution
revolutionary; child of the revolution; man of revolutionary temperament
people's revolution; popular revolution
(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)
Glorious Revolution (1688-1689)
agricultural revolution; agrarian revolution
scientific revolution
revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)
May 68 (period of civil unrest in France; May-June 1968)
literary revolution (of China; post-1917 emphasis on vernacular forms)
Mexican Revolution (1910)
Jasmine Revolution (2010-2011)
consumer revolution; consumption revolution
October Revolution (Russia, 1917); German Revolution (1918-1919)
theory of permanent revolution (esp. Trotsky)
Iranian Revolution
Orange Revolution (Ukraine, 2004-2005)
colour revolution; color revolution
Umbrella Revolution (protests in Hong Kong in 2014)
Examples (19 in total)
The revolution will not be televised.
A revolution broke out in Mexico.
A revolution broke out in that country.