打麻雀運動

1. • the Great Sparrow Campaign or the Four Pests Campaign, one of the actions during the Great Leap Forward 大跃进 dàyuèjìn aiming to eliminate four pests: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows

Character by character

• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 麻(má)hemp
• 雀(què)small bird
• 運(yùn)move
• 動(dòng)move