八はっ紘こう

noun

the eight directions; the whole land; the whole world

Classical Chinese-derived term for the entire world or all directions under heaven. Rare in modern everyday speech; mainly encountered in historical, literary, or ideological contexts, such as the wartime slogan 八紘一宇.

• 「八はっ紘こう一いち宇う」は戦せん時じ中ちゅうのスローガンとして知しられている。

  Hakkō ichiu is known as a wartime slogan.

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんでは、八はっ紘こうは天てん下かや世せ界かい全ぜん体たいを指さす言こと葉ばとして使つかわれた。

  In old texts, hakkō was used as a word meaning the whole realm or the entire world.