富國強兵

fu3 gwok3 koeng4 bing1

lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times · Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times
  2. Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)

Written Forms

富國強兵Traditional · Main Form
富国强兵Alternate Form

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