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
- —半透性semipermeability
- —半自動semi-automatic
- —半人工semi-manual (e.g. manufacture)
- —半纏木tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera); tuliptree; yellow poplar
- —擦り半fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near; sound as produced by this alarm
- —長半径semi-major axis
- —爪半月lunula (white crescent-shaped area at the base of a nail); nail moon
- —半単純semisimple
- —半搗きlight-brown rice; half-polished rice; partially polishing rice
- —小半時approximately thirty minutes
- —半月板meniscus
- —半べそhalf-crying; being on the verge of crying
- —半地下semibasement; semi-basement
- —半幅帯half-width obi (kimono sash)
- —半獣神goat-god; satyr; Pan; Faunus
- —半建てhalf-erect (e.g. building)
- —半ぺらhalf of a piece of paper; half-size paper; (ticket) stub
- —半自治semi-autonomy
- —半乾燥semi-arid; semiarid; semidry
- —半笑いfaint smile; half smile