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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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