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)
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On readings
ハン
Kun readings
なかば
Words with 半
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —延長前半first half of extra time (in soccer)
- —延長後半second half of extra time (in soccer)
- —半腱様筋semitendinosus; semitendinosus muscle
- —半年払いbiannual payment; semiannual payment; semestral payment
- —太陽半径solar radius
- —半値全幅full width at half maximum; FWHM
- —大脳半球cerebral hemisphere
- —半神半人demigod
- —頭半棘筋semispinalis capitis muscle
- —一年有半Ichinen Yūhan (book by Nakae Chōmin)
- —半経験的semiempirical
- —半中半外partial withdrawal during ejaculation (to show the moment on camera); half in, half out
- —半外半中partial withdrawal during ejaculation (to show the moment on camera); half out, half in
- —半年ごとにsemiannually; biannually; half-yearly; every six months
- —イオン半径ionic radius
- —四半期収益quarterly earnings
- —絶対過半数absolute majority
- —半二重通信half-duplex transmission; half-duplex communications
- —ボーア半径Bohr radius
- —半跏思惟像statue of a figure sitting contemplatively in the half lotus position (often of Maitreya)