富国强兵
Traditional form:
富國強兵
Pinyin (reading):
fùguóqiángbīng
Definitions:
- 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)
Characters:
- 富 - abundant, ample; rich, wealthy
- 国 - country, nation, state; national
- 强 - strong, powerful, energetic
- 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
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