东亚病夫
Traditional form:
東亞病夫
Pinyin (reading):
Dōngyàbìngfū
Definitions:
- (derog.) the sick man of Asia (term used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to China in its weakened state after the Opium Wars)
Characters:
- 东 - east, eastern, eastward
- 亚 - Asia; second
- 病 - sickness, illness, disease
- 夫 - man, husband; worker; those
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