中国的版图大概是日本的二十五倍。

China is about twenty-five times as large as Japan.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 中国 Zhōngguó China
=2 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=2 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=2 really and truly
=2 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
3 版图 bǎn
  1. domain
  2. territory
4 大概 gài
  1. roughly
  2. probably
  3. rough
  4. approximate
  5. about
  6. general idea
5 是日 shì
  1. (formal) this day
  2. that day
6 běn
  1. (bound form) root; stem
  2. (bound form) origin; source
  3. (bound form) one's own; this
  4. (bound form) this; the current (year etc)
  5. (bound form) original
  6. (bound form) inherent
  7. originally; initially
  8. capital; principal
  9. classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
=7 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=7 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=7 really and truly
=7 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
8 二十五 èrshí twenty-five; 25
=9 bèi
  1. (two, three etc) -fold
  2. times (multiplier)
  3. double
  4. to increase or multiply
=9 péi
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of (péi).
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (péi)
  3. Original form of (péi).
  4. alternative form of / (péi)