We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「半壁江山」.
Here’s the idiom 「半壁江山」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Half: half; Jiangshan: a metaphor for national territory. Refers to the part of territory that remains or is lost after an enemy invasion.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bàn bì jiāng shān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bun3 bik1 gong1 saan1
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