大日本帝国

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 大日本帝国 – see 大日本帝國 (“Empire of Japan”).
(This term is the simplified form of 大日本帝國).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大 日 本 帝 国
だい
Grade: 1 		にち > にっ
Grade: 1 		ほん > ぽん
Grade: 1 		てい
Grade: S 		こく
Grade: 2
goon on'yomi kan'on on'yomi
Alternative spelling
大日本帝國 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 大日本(だいにっぽん) (dainippon, “Japan”, poetic) + 帝国(ていこく) (teikoku, “empire”).[1] Use of 大 for a name of empire is a Chinese tradition since the Tang dynasty.

Proper noun

大(だい)日(にっ)本(ぽん)帝(てい)国(こく) • (Dainippon Teikoku) 

  1. Empire of Japan (official name of Japan under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, 1890–1947)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
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