救亡图存

救亡圖存
jiùwáng-túcún
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 to save the country from extinction
  2. 2 to strive for national survival

Examples

HSK 5
Nàge niándài, wúshù qīngnián wèi jiùwáng-túcún ér fèndòu.
In that era, countless young people fought to save the nation from ruin.
HSK 7-9
Jiùwáng-túcún shì dāngshí zhīshi fēnzǐ de gòngtóng shǐmìng.
National salvation was the shared mission of the intellectuals of the day.

Tips

history
From Wang Wusheng's 《论小说与改良社会之关系》 (late Qing): "to save from ruin and plan for survival depends not on one or two talents, but on the love of country spreading to the great majority of the nation." Written as China faced imperial collapse.
register
Heavy, formal, historical. Almost always used in contexts about war, colonialism, national crisis, or the late Qing / Republican / anti-Japanese-war periods.

Stroke Order

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