大半天
Chinese
day; sky; heaven | |||
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simp. and trad. (大半天) |
大半 | 天 |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢˋ ㄊㄧㄢ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàbàntian
- Wade–Giles: ta4-pan4-tʻien1
- Yale: dà-bàn-tyān
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbanntian
- Palladius: дабаньтянь (dabanʹtjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ pän⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daai6 bun3 tin1
- Yale: daaih bun tīn
- Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 bun3 tin1
- Guangdong Romanization: dai6 bun3 tin1
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² puːn³³ tʰiːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
(deprecated template usage) 大半天
- most of the day; most of the daytime in a day
- 我忙了大半天了,活兒就不停地來;可逮著了個空兒歇會兒! [dialectal Mandarin, trad.]
- Wǒ máng le dàbàntiān le, huór jiù bùtíng de lái; kě děi zháo le ge kòngr xiē huǐr! [Pinyin]
- I was busy all day, and the work just keeps coming; I finally could get hold of some time to rest a little!
我忙了大半天了,活儿就不停地来;可逮着了个空儿歇会儿! [dialectal Mandarin, simp.]
- (figurative) a long time; quite a while