sun yat-sen

1. 1.

   Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925)

   SynonymsSun Yixian

   Broaderstatesman

Questions about sun yat-sen

What does sun yat-sen mean?

sun yat-sen means "Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925)".

What is another word for sun yat-sen?

Close synonyms include Sun Yixian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sun yat-sen a common word?

sun yat-sen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.