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半壁江山

bàn bì jiāng shān

4-character word

What 半壁江山 means

1. half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands)
2. vast swathe of territory

The characters in 半壁江山

• 半bànhalf; semi-; incomplete
• 壁bìwall; rampart
• 江jiāngriver
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

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