第一岛链
Traditional form:
第一島鏈
Pinyin (reading):
Dìyī Dǎoliàn
Definitions:
- (geopolitics) First Island Chain, strategic arc of islands including Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines
Characters:
- 第 - sequence, number; grade, degree; particle prefacing an ordinal
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 岛 - island
- 链 - chain, wire; chains, shackles
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