富国强兵 in English fu4 guo2 qiang2 bing1 Meaning

Meanings

  • literally (word for word) rich country, strong army (idiomatic expression); 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)

Simplified Characters

富 国 强 兵

Traditional Characters

富 國 強 兵

Pinyin

fu4 guo2 qiang2 bing1

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

富fu4surname Fu 国guo2surname Guo 强qiang2surname Qiang 兵bing1soldiers