Pronunciation: ㄉ一ˋ ㄍㄨㄛˊ || Dìguó
Breaking it Down:
The two characters that make up Empire are the characters for Emperor (帝) and country (國). The empire is literally then the "Emperor's Country".
Living Language:
I saw the phrase in an Apple Daily (蘋果日報) article. You can see the original article HERE. The sentence I saw it used in was:
大清帝國沒有日本帝國一樣
which I guess a rough translation would be "the Qing Empire unlike the Japanese Empire..." (I cannot read the rest but that part makes sense.) You can see a screen shot of the phrase in the article below.
Expansion:
大清帝國 - Qing Empire
大明帝國 - Ming Empire
日本帝國 - Japanese Empire
英國帝國 - British Empire
羅馬第國 - Roman Empire
希臘帝國 - Greek Empire
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