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洋务

yáng wù

2-character word Traditional 洋務

What 洋务 means

1. foreign affairs (in Qing times)
2. foreign learning

The characters in 洋务

• 洋yángocean; vast; foreign
• 务wùaffair; business; matter

Words starting with 洋务

• 洋务派yáng wù pàithe foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
• 洋务运动Yáng wù Yùn dòngSelf-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自强运动
• 洋务学堂yáng wù xué tángcollege of Western learning in late Qing

Sounds the same

Read yáng wù, tone for tone, but written differently.

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