半

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. half

Derived characters

• 判

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

半 (jyutping bun3, Yale bun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

半 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. half

Readings

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

Compounds

半妖 (はんよう 半神 はんしん, hanshin 折半 半時間 半数

半月 半年 半田 (handa) 半分 半島 (はんとう, hantō): a peninsula 四半 (しはん, shihan) a quarter

Antonyms

• 倍 (ばい, bai, “double, twice”)

Suffix

半 (hiragana はん, romaji -han)

1. half

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• audio

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Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 半衰期 (half life)
• 半音阶 (chromatic scale)
• 半島, 半岛 (peninsula)
• 半唐番 ("half Chinese" person)

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Vietnamese

Han character

半 (bán, bướng, ban, bận, bớn)