Kanji1 / 5
半 kanji
half, middle, odd number, semi-, part-
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ハン
Kun readings
なかば
Words with 半
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —半裸体seminude; half-naked
- —半諧音assonance
- —半鹹水brackish water
- —北半球northern hemisphere
- —約半分approximately half
- —半月形semicircular; crescent-shaped; half-moon
- —半月弁semilunar valve
- —半熟卵soft boiled egg
- —半ドンhalf-holiday; sixth round (in a game of 12 rounds)
- —一分半a minute and a half
- —半濁点handakuten; diacritic used with kana that turns an "h" sound into a "p" sound
- —半ケツhaving buttock cleavage exposed (e.g. when sitting)
- —半永久semipermanence
- —半端者halfwit; blockhead; fool
- —半端物odd piece; incomplete set; odds and ends
- —小半日nearly half a day; approximately half a day
- —四半分a fourth; quarter
- —話半分taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story
- —陸半球land hemisphere
- —生半可superficial; half-hearted; shallow