太平洋战争

Traditional form:

太平洋戰爭

Pinyin (reading):

Tàipíng Yáng Zhànzhēng

Definitions:

• Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945

Characters:

• 太 - very, too much; big; extreme
• 平 - flat, level, even; peaceful
• 洋 - sea, ocean; western, foreign
• 战 - war, fighting, battle
• 争 - to dispute, to fight, to contend, to strive

Traditional characters:

• 太 - very, too much; big; extreme
• 平 - flat, level, even; peaceful
• 洋 - sea, ocean; western, foreign
• 戰 - war, fighting, battle
• 爭 - to dispute, to fight, to contend, to strive