富国强兵 — Chinese idiom
富国强兵
fù guó qiáng bīng
Traditional: 富國強兵
Meaning
- lit. rich country, strong army ; 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)
Character by character
- 富fùabundant, ample; rich, wealthy
- 国guócountry, nation, state; national
- 强qiángstrong, powerful, energetic
- 兵bīngsoldier; troops, an army; warlike
Idioms sharing a character
- 劫富济贫 jié fù jì pín
- 嫌贫爱富 xián pín ài fù
- 学富五车 xué fù wǔ chē
- 安富尊荣 ān fù zūn róng
- 安富恤穷 ān fù xù qióng
- 安富恤贫 ān fù xù pín
- 富可敌国 fù kě dí guó
- 富商大贾 fù shāng dà gǔ
- 富商巨贾 fù shāng jù gǔ
- 富甲一方 fù jiǎ yī fāng
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