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
- —半端ものhalfwit; blockhead; fool
- —半端もんhalfwit; blockhead; fool
- —半端ものodd piece; incomplete set; odds and ends
- —半跏趺座half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh
- —半田ゴテsoldering iron
- —半田付けsoldering
- —半ぎょ人merman; half man-half fish
- —擂り半鐘fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near; sound as produced by this alarm
- —従兄弟半first cousin once removed
- —半身マヒhemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body)
- —三擦り半premature ejaculation
- —三くだり半letter of divorce; declaration of separation; break up (non-marital); separation; severing of a relationship
- —半２重通信half-duplex transmission; half-duplex communications
- —半２重伝送half-duplex transmission
- —半顔メークhalf-face makeup; makeup on half the face
- —丁半ばくちchō-han bakuchi; gambling game in which two dice are thrown and players bet on whether the total is odd or even
- —第三四半期third quarter (of the year)
- —第一四半期first quarter (of the year)
- —第二四半期second quarter (of the year)
- —第四四半期fourth quarter (of the year)