勝 てば官軍 、負 ければ賊軍 kateba kangun makereba zokugun
kateba kangun makereba zokugun
Expression
1. might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong; if you win you are the loyalist army, if you lose you are the rebel army — literal
Proverb
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- 勝 kanji, 12 strokes victory
- て hiragana, 1 strokes te
- ば hiragana, 5 strokes ba
- 官 kanji, 8 strokes bureaucrat
- 軍 kanji, 9 strokes army
- 、 punctuation, 1 strokes
- 負 kanji, 9 strokes defeat
- け hiragana, 3 strokes ke
- れ hiragana, 2 strokes re
- ば hiragana, 5 strokes ba
- 賊 kanji, 13 strokes burglar
- 軍 kanji, 9 strokes army
Reading
- か hiragana, 3 strokes ka
- て hiragana, 1 strokes te
- ば hiragana, 5 strokes ba
- か hiragana, 3 strokes ka
- ん hiragana, 1 strokes n
- ぐ hiragana, 3 strokes gu
- ん hiragana, 1 strokes n
- 、 punctuation, 1 strokes
- ま hiragana, 3 strokes ma
- け hiragana, 3 strokes ke
- れ hiragana, 2 strokes re
- ば hiragana, 5 strokes ba
- ぞ hiragana, 3 strokes zo
- く hiragana, 1 strokes ku
- ぐ hiragana, 3 strokes gu
- ん hiragana, 1 strokes n
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