半 (bàn)
half; semi-
How 半 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 二 — two
- Traditional
- 半
- Simplified
- 半 (unchanged)
Components
- 二 two
- 丨 line
- 丷 eight/divide
Common words using 半
- 一半 yībàn
- half
- 半夜 bànyè
- midnight; in the middle of the night
- 三更半夜 sāngēngbànyè
- in the depth of the night; very late at night
- 上半年 shàngbànnián
- first half (of a year)
- 下半年 xiàbànnián
- last-half year
- 半價 bànjià
- half price
- 半場 bànchǎng
- half of a game or contest; half-court
- 半天 bàntiān
- half of the day; a long time; quite a while
- 半島 bàndǎo
- peninsula; Al Jazeera (Arabic-language news network)
- 半死 bànsǐ
- half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc); (tired) to death; (terrified) out of one's wits
- 半決賽 bànjuésài
- semifinals
- 半生 bànshēng
- half a lifetime
半 in a sentence
我買了半顆西瓜。
Wǒ mǎi le bàn kē xīguā.
“I bought half a watermelon.”
How common is 半?
半 is the 513th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 76.3% of all running text.
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