半壁江山 bàn bì jiāng shān

vast swathe of territory

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency 53118th word

Definitions

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

Characters

Character Meaning
半 bàn HSK 3
half; (after a number) and a half; semi-
壁 bì HSK 5
wall; rampart
江 jiāng HSK 4
river; surname Jiang
山 shān HSK 3
mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain