半路

Chinese

		half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	road; path; way
simp. and trad. (半路)		半	路

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): bànlù

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄌㄨˋ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): банлў (banlw, III-III)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun³ lou⁶ / bun³ lou^6-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pan-lu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pòaⁿ-lō͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): buan³ lou⁷

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵poe-lu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bànlù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bànlù
    • Wade–Giles: pan⁴-lu⁴
    • Yale: bàn-lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannluh
    • Palladius: баньлу (banʹlu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bànlùr
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄌㄨˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bànlùr
    • Wade–Giles: pan⁴-lu⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: bàn-lùr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannlull
    • Palladius: баньлур (banʹlur)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹⁻⁵³ luɻʷ⁵¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: банлў (banlw, III-III)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pæ̃⁴⁴ lu⁴⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun³ lou⁶ / bun³ lou^6-2
    • Yale: bun louh / bun lóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun³ lou⁶ / bun³ lou^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun³ lou⁶ / bun³ lou^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³³ lou̯²²/, /puːn³³ lou̯²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pan-lu
    • Hakka Romanization System: ban lu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ban⁴ lu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pan⁵⁵ lu⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-lō͘
    • Tâi-lô: puànn-lōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvoarlo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /puã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /puã¹¹⁻⁵³ lɔ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /puã²¹⁻⁴¹ lɔ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: buan³ lou⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: puàⁿ lōu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pũã²¹³⁻⁵⁵ lou¹¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵poe-lu
    • MiniDict: poe^去 lu
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²poe-lu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pø³³ lu⁴⁴/

Noun

半路

1. halfway; midway; on the way
2. (Taiwanese Hokkien) the middle (of doing something)

Synonyms

• (Northern Min) 半墿／半𰉣
• (Hokkien) 半剸／半𰄞, 半中剸／半中𰄞, 半中而剸／半中而𰄞
• (halfway): 中途 (zhōngtú), 半道 (bàndào)

Derived terms

• 半路出家 (bànlùchūjiā)
• 半路夫妻 (bànlù fūqī)
• 半路師／半路师
• 半路殺出個程咬金／半路杀出个程咬金 (bànlù shā chū ge Chéng Yǎojīn)