半

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

半 (radical 24 十+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 火手 (FQ), four-corner 9050₀, composition ⿻⿱丷二丨)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		半

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bàn (ban⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): pan
• Min Nan (POJ): pòaⁿ / pòan
• Wu (WT Romanisation): poe (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bann
    • IPA ^(key): /pa̠n⁵¹/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun³
    • Yale: bun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun³
    • IPA ^(key): /puːn³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pan
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /pan⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ / pòan
    • Tâi-lô: puànn / puàn
    • IPA (Taipei): /puã¹¹/, /puan¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /puã²¹/, /puan²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: poe (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /pø²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (半, reconstructed)
Character (半), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 桓 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 博慢切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/puɑnH/	/puɑnH/	/puɑnH/	/pʷɑnH/	/pwanH/	/puɑnH/	/puɑnH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (半, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
半								bàn								‹ panH ›								/*pˤan-s/								half
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
半					243					半					元					1					半					/*paːns/

Noun

半

1. half, semi-

Compounds

Derived terms

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

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Japanese

Kanji

半

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. half

Readings

• Goon: はん (han)
• Kan’on: はん (han)
• Kun: なかば (nakaba), なかばする (nakabasuru)

Compounds

Derived terms

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)

Suffix

半 (hiragana はん, romaji -han)

1. half

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

半 (bán, bướng, ban, bận, bớn)

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