中日甲午戰爭 zhōngrìjiǎwǔzhànzhēng First Sino-Japanese War Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 中日 zhōngrì Sino-Japanese (abbreviation) China and Japan; Sino-Japanese甲午战争 甲午戰爭 jiǎwǔzhànzhēng First Sino-Japanese War The war fought between the Qing Dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan from 1894 to 1895 over influence in Korea; named for the 甲午 jiǎwǔ year in the lunar calendar.