单词 | rising sun flag |
释义 | > as lemmasrising sun flag rising sun flag n. (a name for) any of various naval or military flags of Japan, typically comprising a red disc surrounded by sixteen rays; spec. the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the flag of the Imperial Japanese Army (now historical); cf. sun flag n. at sun n.1 Compounds 5a.Also occasionally with reference to the national flag of Japan, comprising a simple red disc on a white field. [Perhaps after Japanese Kyokujitsu-ki, lit. ‘rising-sun sun flag’, denoting the Japanese military flag only (although this is apparently first attested slightly later: 1875 in an abbreviated form); the Japanese names of the national flag are (officially) Nisshōki, lit. ‘sun emblem flag’ (1877) and (colloquially) Hinomaru (1877, short for hi no maru no hata, lit. ‘sun's circle flag’).] ΚΠ 1868 [see sense 4b]. 1943 Times 20 Sept. 3/3 The honour of hauling down the Rising Sun flag which was flying over the hill that dominates the town. 1967 J. W. Peterson Orders & Medals Japan & Associated States 1 The national Rising Sun flag is white with a red disk and the military flag has a red sun with red rays on a white ground. 1995 J. Vardaman Japan from A to Z (1997) 56 The so-called Rising Sun flag with sixteen rays is a military service flag (still used today by Japan's Self-Defense Forces). 2009 D. Chan in L. Hjorth & D. Chan Gaming Cultures & Place in Asia-Pacific viii. 147 A mass virtual world protest over what was believed to be the flagrant display of a symbol of Japanese militarism, the Rising Sun flag, within the game. < as lemmas |
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