大东亚共荣圈
Traditional form:
大東亞共榮圈
Pinyin (reading):
Dà Dōngyà Gòngróngquān
Definitions:
- Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近衛文麿／近卫文麿 in 1938
Characters:
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 东 - east, eastern, eastward
- 亚 - Asia; second
- 共 - all, total; together; to share
- 荣 - glory, honor; to flourish, to prosper
- 圈 - circle, ring, loop; to encircle
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