半（はん）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: atamadaka (head-high) — first mora high, then falls
Meaning: half (time)
Example sentences
- 今、ちょうど三時半です。 — It's exactly three thirty right now.
- 駅まで一時間半、歩いた。 — I walked for an hour and a half to the station.
Idioms & proverbs containing “半”
- 中途半端 (ちゅうとはんぱ) — halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked; half-cocked; half-hearted; half-arsed; half-assed
- 半官半民 (はんかんはんみん) — semi-governmental; semi-official
- 教うるは学ぶの半ば (おしうるはまなぶのなかば) — we learn by teaching
- 起きて半畳寝て一畳 (おきてはんじょうねていちじょう) — one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat
- 百里を行く者は九十を半ばとす (ひゃくりをゆくものはくじゅうをなかばとす) — don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90
- 一紙半銭 (いっしはんせん) — small sum; things of little value
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