半

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半 U+534A, 半
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534A
← 卉
[U+5349]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 卋 →
[U+534B]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
0 strokes

Han character[edit]

半 (radical 24 十+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 火手 (FQ), four-corner 90500, composition ⿱丷⿻二丨(GHTJV) or ⿱八⿻二丨(K))

  1. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №18

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 半

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (半) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
半 paːns
絆 paːns
靽 paːns
姅 paːns, *pʰaːns
拌 pʰaːn, *baːnʔ
拚 pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns
坢 pʰaːnʔ
判 pʰaːns
泮 pʰaːns
頖 pʰaːns
胖 pʰaːns
冸 pʰaːns
牉 pʰaːns
柈 baːn
伴 baːnʔ, *baːns
叛 baːns
畔 baːns
袢 ban

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • pòaⁿ - vernacular;
  • poàn - literary.
Rime
Character 半
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 博慢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /puɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /puɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pwanH/
Li
Rong		 /puɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /puɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /puɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 半
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ panH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤan-s/
English 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 半
Reading # 1/1
No. 243
Phonetic
component		 半
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 半
Old
Chinese		 /*paːns/

Definitions[edit]

半

  1. half
    全國人口的一半 / 全国人口的一半  ―  quánguó rénkǒu de yībàn  ―  half of the national population
    一磅半 [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 bong6 bun3 [Jyutping]  ―  1½ pounds
    十點半 / 十点半 [Cantonese]  ―  sap6 dim2 bun3 [Jyutping]  ―  10:30
  2. very little
  3. halfway, partially, semi-
    半醉半醒  ―  bàn zuì bàn xǐng  ―  partially in a stupor, partially awake

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 半

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

半

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. half

Readings[edit]

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Derived terms

Antonyms[edit]

Suffix[edit]

半 (hiragana はん, rōmaji -han)

  1. half

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

半 (bán, bướng, ban, bận, bớn)

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