废藩置县
Traditional form:
廢藩置縣
Pinyin (reading):
fèifānzhìxiàn
Definitions:
- to abolish the feudal Han and introduce modern prefectures (refers to reorganization during Meiji Japan)
Characters:
- 废 - to terminate; to discard; to abgrogate
- 藩 - boundary, fence, outlying border
- 置 - to lay out, to place, to set aside
- 县 - county, district, subdivision
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