風林火山 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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風 | 林 | 火 | 山 |
ふう Grade: 2 |
りん Grade: 1 |
か Grade: 1 |
さん > ざん Grade: 1 |
goon | on'yomi | kan'on |
A contraction of the slogan on daimyō Takeda Shingen's army banner, 「疾如風、徐如林、侵掠如火、不動如山」, originally from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
風林火山 • (fūrinkazan) ←ふうりんくわざん (fuurinkwazan)?
- (military) "wind-forest-fire-mountain", a military strategy that's based on the premise of being "as swift as the wind, as silent as the forest, as fierce as the fire, as firm as the mountain"
- 火山 (kazan)