第二岛链
Traditional form:
第二島鏈
Pinyin (reading):
Dì'èr Dǎoliàn
Definitions:
- (geopolitics) Second Island Chain, strategic arc of islands stretching from Japan's Bonin Islands to Guam and Papua New Guinea
Characters:
- 第 - sequence, number; grade, degree; particle prefacing an ordinal
- 二 - two; twice
- 岛 - island
- 链 - chain, wire; chains, shackles
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