風林火山

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
ふう
Grade: 2
りん
Grade: 1

Grade: 1
さん > ざん
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goon on'yomi kan'on
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Etymology

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A contraction of the slogan on daimyō Takeda Shingen's army banner, 「疾如、徐如、侵掠如、不動如, originally from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Pronunciation

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  • (Tokyo) うりんかざん [fùúríńkáꜜzàǹ] (Nakadaka – [5])
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟ːɾʲĩŋka̠zã̠ɴ]

Noun

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(ふう)(りん)()(ざん) (fūrinkazanふうりんくわざん (fuurinkwazan)?

  1. (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"

See also

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