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富国强兵

fù guó qiáng bīng

Definitions

  • lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times
  • Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)