半壁江山
Traditional form:
半壁江山
Pinyin (reading):
bànbìjiāngshān
Definitions:
- half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands)
- vast swathe of territory
Characters:
- 半 - half; semi-, incomplete
- 壁 - partition, wall; rampart
- 江 - large river; the Yangtze; surname
- 山 - mountain, hill, peak
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