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
- —半睡半醒half asleep and half awake
- —半醒半睡half awake and half asleep
- —半端仕事odd job
- —二枚目半comedian who plays a lover's part; man who is both handsome and fun
- —半道海豚bottlenose dolphin; bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
- —上半身裸naked above the waist; stripped to the waist; shirtless
- —半臂の緒decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi
- —半角カナhalf-width kana
- —半角文字half-width character; single-byte character (ASCII, single-byte kana from JIS 201, etc.)
- —半角数字half-width digit
- —半閉鎖式semiclosed system
- —半倍数性haplodiploidy
- —半田ごてsoldering iron
- —半索動物hemichordate (any worm of phylum Hemichordata)
- —半自明解semi-trivial solution
- —半加算器half-adder
- —半加算機half adder
- —半減算器half subtractor
- —結合半径bond radius
- —半透明体semitransparent body; translucent body