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
- —半券stub (of a ticket)
- —半身stance with legs in an L-shape, with one leg bent in front and other extended behind (martial arts, traditional theater)
- —半幅half-width cloth (approx. 18 cm)
- —半臂short-sleeved (or sleeveless) undergarment worn by aristocratic men
- —半挿teapot-like object made typically of lacquerware and used to pour hot and cold liquids; basin of water with two handles on either side used for washing one's face or hands
- —半跏half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh
- —半語half-word
- —七半750cc motorcycle
- —半割Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus)
- —半歩half step; half a step
- —半歩unit of land area (orig. 595.044 m^2)
- —半成semi-; half-
- —半玉half portion of noodles or fried rice; half ball (of noodles)
- —半獣half-human and half-beast
- —半間something unfinished; something incomplete; idiot
- —半目half-open eyes
- —半目half a point (esp. in go)
- —半顔half the face
- —半夏crow dipper (Pinellia tuber); 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day
- —半間half a ken (3 shaku, approx. 0.91 m)