半壁江山
bàn bì jiāng shān
Pinyin

Definition

半壁江山
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bàn bì jiāng shān
  1. half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands)
  2. vast swathe of territory

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

yī bàn
  1. 1 half
bàn
  1. 1 half
  2. 2 semi-
  3. 3 incomplete
  4. 4 (after a number) and a half
bàn yè
  1. 1 midnight
  2. 2 in the middle of the night
bàn tiān
  1. 1 half of the day
  2. 2 a long time
  3. 3 quite a while
  4. 4 midair
  5. 5 CL:個|个[gè]
Táng shān
  1. 1 Tangshan prefecture level city in Hebei
  1. 1 wall
  2. 2 rampart
bì zhǐ
  1. 1 wallpaper
dà bàn yè
  1. 1 the middle of the night
Shān
  1. 1 surname Shan
Shān dōng
  1. 1 Shandong, province in northeast China, short name 魯|鲁[Lǔ], capital Jinan 濟南|济南[Jǐ nán]
Jiāng shān
  1. 1 Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qú zhōu], Zhejiang
jiāng hú
  1. 1 rivers and lakes
  2. 2 all corners of the country
  3. 3 remote areas to which hermits retreat
  4. 4 section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law
  5. 5 the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])
  6. 6 (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc
  7. 7 demimonde
  8. 8 (in modern times) triads
  9. 9 secret gangster societies
  10. 10 underworld
Jiāng sū
  1. 1 Jiangsu province (Kiangsu) in southeast China, abbr. 蘇|苏, capital Nanjing 南京
Zhè jiāng
  1. 1 Zhejiang province (Chekiang) in east China, abbr. 浙, capital Hangzhou 杭州
Chì bì
  1. 1 Chibi county level city in Xianning 咸宁市, Hubei
  2. 2 Chibi or Red Cliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Red Cliff of 208
Zhào Běn shān
  1. 1 Zhao Benshan (1958-), universally known PRC TV comedian
gé bì
  1. 1 next door
  2. 2 neighbor
sān gēng bàn yè
  1. 1 in the depth of the night
  2. 2 very late at night
shàng bàn nián
  1. 1 first half (of a year)
shàng shān
  1. 1 to go uphill
  2. 2 to spin cocoon (silkworms)
  3. 3 to pass away

Idioms (20)

一山不容二虎
yī shān bù róng èr hǔ
  1. 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
  3. 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
一瓶子不响,半瓶子晃荡
yī píng zi bù xiǎng , bàn píng zi huàng dang
  1. 1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise
一知半解
yī zhī bàn jiě
  1. 1 lit. to know one and understand half (idiom); a smattering of knowledge
  2. 2 dilettante
  3. 3 amateur
一鳞半爪
yī lín bàn zhuǎ
  1. 1 lit. one scale and half a claw (idiom); only odd bits and pieces
不识泰山
bù shí Tài Shān
  1. 1 can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
不显山不露水
bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
事半功倍
shì bàn gōng bèi
  1. 1 half the work, twice the effect (idiom); the right approach saves effort and leads to better results
  2. 2 a stitch in time saves nine
人在江湖,身不由己
rén zài jiāng hú , shēn bù yóu jǐ
  1. 1 you can't always do as you like
  2. 2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
他山之石可以攻玉
tā shān zhī shí kě yǐ gōng yù
  1. 1 lit. the other mountain's stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside
  2. 2 to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively
兵败如山倒
bīng bài rú shān dǎo
  1. 1 troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse
刀山火海
dāo shān huǒ hǎi
  1. 1 lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames
  2. 2 fig. extreme danger (idiom)
半推半就
bàn tuī bàn jiù
  1. 1 half willing and half unwilling (idiom); to yield after making a show of resistance
半瓶水响叮当
bàn píng shuǐ xiǎng dīng dāng
  1. 1 lit. if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise
  3. 3 one who has a little knowledge likes to show off, but one who is truly knowledgeable is modest
半真半假
bàn zhēn bàn jiǎ
  1. 1 (idiom) half true and half false
半途而废
bàn tú ér fèi
  1. 1 to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished
半通不通
bàn tōng bù tōng
  1. 1 to not fully understand (idiom)
名落孙山
míng luò Sūn Shān
  1. 1 lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山[Sūn Shān] (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to fail an exam
  3. 3 to fall behind (in a competition)
向壁虚构
xiàng bì xū gòu
  1. 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
向壁虚造
xiàng bì xū zào
  1. 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
地动山摇
dì dòng shān yáo
  1. 1 the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle

Sample Sentences

发包市场结构集中化”就是指发包商和服务商的构成相对集中。目前,来自欧美的业务占了总体的比例的半壁江山。而且随着更多欧美发包企业在中国寻找合作伙伴,以及中国企业进一步开拓欧美市场,欧美发包市场的比例将继续提高。另一方面,日本发包市场规模也在稳步上升。
fābāo shìchǎng jiégòu jízhōnghuà ”jiùshì zhǐ fābāoshāng hé fúwùshāng de gòuchéng xiāngduì jízhōng 。mùqián ,láizì Ōuměi de yèwù zhàn le zǒngtǐ de bǐlì de bànbìjiāngshān 。érqiě suízhe gèng duō Ōuměi fābāo qǐyè zài Zhōngguó xúnzhǎo hézuò huǒbàn ,yǐjí Zhōngguó qǐyè jìn yī bù kāituò Ōuměi shìchǎng ,Ōuměi fābāo shìchǎng de bǐlì jiāng jìxù tígāo 。lìngyīfāngmiàn ,rìběn fābāo shìchǎng guīmó yě zài wěnbù shàngshēng 。
''Consolidation of the outsourcers' market structures" means the mutual consolidation of the outsourcers' and service providers' structures. Currently, business from Europe and America is more than half the total. And as more European and American outsourcers are looking for Chinese partners, and as Chinese companies do more to open the US-European markets, the proportion of US-American outsourcers will continue to rise. Another side of the story is that the scale of the Japanese outsourcing market continues to increase steadily.