中山装

Mandarin

simpl.		中山装
trad.		中山裝

Etymology

中山 (an alias of Sun Yat-sen's) 装 (suit)

This type of suit was originally worn by Sun Yat-sen, and as such is still named after him in Chinese. In English, it was named after Mao, because it became so closely associated with Mao in the Western imagination.

Noun

中山装 (simplified, Pinyin Zhōngshān zhuāng, traditional 中山裝)

1. Mao suit

References

• 中山装 on the Mandarin Wikipedia.zh.Wikipedia
• Mao suit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Mao suit
• "中山装" (in Mandarin), Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2008-04-20.
• 2007, Hanyu Da Cidian 3.0 (in Mandarin), Hong Kong: Commercial Press, ISBN 9789620702778: