半日

Chinese

		half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (半日)		半	日

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bànrì

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄖˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun³ jat⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pòaⁿ-li̍t / pòaⁿ-ji̍t
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵poe-gniq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bànrì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄖˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bànrìh
    • Wade–Giles: pan⁴-jih⁴
    • Yale: bàn-r̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannryh
    • Palladius: баньжи (banʹži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun³ jat⁶
    • Yale: bun yaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun³ jat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun³ yed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³³ jɐt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-li̍t
    • Tâi-lô: puànn-li̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvoarlit
    • IPA (Taipei): /puã¹¹⁻⁵³ lit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /puã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lit̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ lit̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-ji̍t
    • Tâi-lô: puànn-ji̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvoarjit
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /puã²¹⁻⁴¹ zit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ d͡zit̚¹²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵poe-gniq
    • MiniDict: poe^去 nyih
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²poe-nyiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pø³³ n̠ʲiɪʔ⁴⁴/

Noun

半日

1. half a day
2. (figurative, hyperbolic) a long time; quite a while; a while; forever

   搞咗半日都未搞掂啊？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   gaau² zo² bun³ jat⁶ dou¹ mei⁶ gaau² dim⁶ aa⁴? [Jyutping]

   You've been doing this the whole day, and you're still not done?

Synonyms

• (half a day): 半天 (bàntiān), 半晌 (bànshǎng); (Cantonese) 半晝／半昼; (Hokkien) 半工 (pòaⁿ-kang), 半晡 (pòaⁿ-po͘)
• (a long time): 半天 (bàntiān)

Derived terms

• 偷得浮生半日閒／偷得浮生半日闲 (tōu dé fúshēng bànrì xián)
• 半日制 (bànrìzhì)
• 頂半日／顶半日

 

Related terms

• 全日 (quánrì)
• 全天 (quántiān)