半晌

Chinese

		half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	around noon
simp. and trad. (半晌)		半	晌
alternative forms		半餉／半饷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bànshǎng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄕㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun³ hoeng²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bànshǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄕㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bànshǎng
    • Wade–Giles: pan⁴-shang³
    • Yale: bàn-shǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannshaang
    • Palladius: баньшан (banʹšan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹ ʂɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bànshǎngr
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄕㄤˇㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bànshǎngr
    • Wade–Giles: pan⁴-shang³-ʼrh
    • Yale: bàn-shǎngr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannshaangl
    • Palladius: баньшанр (banʹšanr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹ ʂɑ̃ɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun³ hoeng²
    • Yale: bun héung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun³ hoeng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun³ hêng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³³ hœːŋ³⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 半晌

1. (Mainland China, regional) half of the day
2. (Mainland China) a long time; quite a while
3. a short period of time