富國強兵 fù guó qiáng bīng

make the country rich and army strong

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

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

Characters

Character Meaning
富 fù HSK 4
rich; wealthy; abundant
國 guó
country; nation; state
強 qiáng
strong; powerful; better
兵 bīng HSK 5
soldiers; military; weapons