富国强兵 (富國強兵)
fù guó qiáng bīng
Pinyin

Definition

富国强兵 (富國強兵)
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fù guó qiáng bīng
  1. lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times
  2. Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

兵器
bīng qì
  1. 1 weaponry
  2. 2 weapons
  3. 3 arms
士兵
shì bīng
  1. 1 soldier
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
奇兵
qí bīng
  1. 1 troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)
富
Fù
  1. 1 surname Fu
特种兵
tè zhǒng bīng
  1. 1 commando
  2. 2 special forces soldier

Idioms (20)

先礼后兵
xiān lǐ hòu bīng
  1. 1 peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence
  2. 2 jaw-jaw is better than war-war
全民皆兵
quán mín jiē bīng
  1. 1 to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom)
兵不血刃
bīng bù xuè rèn
  1. 1 lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory
兵来将挡，水来土掩
bīng lái jiàng dǎng , shuǐ lái tǔ yǎn
  1. 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
  2. 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
兵来将敌，水来土堰
bīng lái jiàng dí , shuǐ lái tǔ yàn
  1. 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
  2. 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

Sample Sentences

你好，我姓郑，郑富，富国强兵的富，张小姐在哪里高就？
nǐhǎo ，wǒ xìng Zhèng ，Zhèng Fù ，fùguóqiángbīng de fù ，Zhāng Xiǎojie zài nǎli gāojiù ？
Hello, my surname is Zheng and my whole name is Zheng Fu. The "Fu" meaning "rich" in the legalist expression "make the country rich and the military strong". Where do you work, Ms Zheng?
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