大東亞共榮圈 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 大东亚共荣圈 dàdōngyàgòngróngquān ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄨㄥ ㄧㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄥˋ ㄖㄨㄥˊ ㄑㄩㄢ Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近卫文麿 in 1938 Character by character 大(dà)big 東(dōng)surname Dong 亞(yà)Asia 共(gòng)common 榮(róng)surname Rong 圈(quān)circle A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0