半

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Han character

半 (radical 24 十+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 火手 (FQ), four-corner 9050₀)

1. half

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 156, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2707
• Dae Jaweon: page 354, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 46, character 1
• Unihan data for U+534A

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

半 (Yale bun3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

半 (grade 2 kanji)

1. half

[edit] Readings

• On: はん (han)
• Kun: なかば (nakaba), なかばする (nakabasuru)

[edit] Compounds

折半 半時間

半数 半月

半年 半田 (handa)

半分

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

半 (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

半 (pinyin bàn (ban4), Wade-Giles pan⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 半衰期 (half life)
• 半音阶 (chromatic scale)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

半 (bán, bướng, ban, bận, bớn)