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西半球

Mandarin · pinyin xī bàn qiú

the Western Hemisphere

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西: xī · west(ern); westward; occident; Kangxi radical 146
半: bàn · half
球: qiú · ball, sphere, globe; round

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1–4–2 · xi1 ban4 qiu2

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Western Hemisphere (the hemisphere in Earth to the west of the Greenwich meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line), containing the Americas and a small part of eastern Russia)

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