南半球
Nán bàn qiú
Pinyin

Definition

南半球
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Nán bàn qiú
  1. Southern Hemisphere

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一半
yī bàn
  1. 1 half
全球
quán qiú
  1. 1 entire
  2. 2 total
  3. 3 global
  4. 4 the (whole) world
  5. 5 worldwide
半
bàn
  1. 1 half
  2. 2 semi-
  3. 3 incomplete
  4. 4 (after a number) and a half
半夜
bàn yè
  1. 1 midnight
  2. 2 in the middle of the night
南
Nán
  1. 1 surname Nan

Idioms (20)

一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
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
不撞南墙不回头
bù zhuàng nán qiáng bù huí tóu
  1. 1 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)

Sample Sentences

按理说南半球现在正由冬转春天气逐步转为温暖湿润，气候因素应不至于对火灾产生推波助澜的作用。
ànlǐshuō Nánbànqiú xiànzài zhèng yóu dōng zhuǎn chūn tiānqì zhúbù zhuǎnwéi wēnnuǎn shīrùn ，qìhòu yīnsù yīng bùzhìyú duì huǒzāi chǎnshēng tuībōzhùlán de zuòyòng 。
The southern hemisphere is gradually turning from warm winter to warm and humid, therefore climatic factors shouldn’t cause the fire.
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我一直在想，夏天不就应该去有阳光的地方吗？南半球那时候是冬天...
wǒ yīzhí zài xiǎng ，xiàtiān bù jiù yīnggāi qù yǒu yángguāng de dìfang ma ？nánbànqiú nà shíhou shì dōngtiān ...
I've been thinking, shouldn't we go somewhere sunny in summer? It is winter in the southern hemisphere at that time...
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这件事不是上次就讨论过了？是你说要去南半球避暑的。
zhè jiàn shì bùshì shàngcì jiù tǎolùn guò le ？shì nǐ shuō yào qù nánbànqiú bìshǔ de 。
Didn't we discuss this last time? It was you that said you wanted to go to the southern hemisphere to escape the heat.
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