洋务运动
Traditional form:
洋務運動
Pinyin (reading):
Yángwù Yùndòng
Definitions:
- Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動／自强运动
Characters:
- 洋 - sea, ocean; western, foreign
- 务 - affairs, business; should; must
- 运 - to run; ship, transport; fortune, luck
- 动 - to move, to happen; movement, action
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