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
- —下半lower half
- —過半the greater part
- —上半first half; upper half
- —中半middle; half-finished
- —丁半even and odd numbers (on dice); chō-han; gambling game in which two dice are thrown and players bet on whether the total is odd or even
- —東半the eastern half
- —南半southern half
- —半影penumbra
- —半円semicircle
- —半音semitone; half step; halftone
- —半価half price
- —半可insufficiency; half ripe
- —半解only half understood
- —半壊partial destruction
- —半開half-open; partly open; semicivilized; semicivilised
- —半角half-width characters (e.g. romaji); single-byte characters; en quad
- —半旗flag at half-mast
- —半季half-year (sometimes esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment); half of a season
- —半休half-holiday; taking half of the day off
- —半弓small bow