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
- —半身不随hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body)
- —半封建性semifeudalism
- —半流動体semiliquid
- —半搗き米half-polished rice
- —遊び半分half in fun
- —わら半紙straw paper
- —一言半句a single word; (not even) a word; (not even) a syllable
- —半濁音符handakuten; diacritic used with kana that turns an "h" sound into a "p" sound
- —慰み半分partly for fun; capricious
- —半農半漁half-agricultural and half-fishing (village or economy)
- —行動半径radius of action; combat radius; sphere of activity; range of activity
- —面白半分for fun; half in jest
- —丁か半かeven or odd
- —四半世紀quarter of a century
- —回転半径radius of gyration
- —半知半解superficial knowledge; half knowledge
- —一字半句a single word; (not even) a word; (not even) a syllable
- —冗談半分half joking; being (only) half serious; (in a) jocular vein
- —半跏趺坐half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh
- —半鐘泥棒very tall person