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
- —半量half the amount
- —四半quarter; a fourth; square (piece of) cloth
- —半人useless; worthless; no good; half-man (esp. upper body); half day (e.g. when working)
- —半波half-wave
- —半群semigroup
- —半生half-cooked; rare; half-dried; moist-dry; semi-dry; half-baked (knowledge); superficial; shaky (of a skill); semiperishable sweets; half-dry confectionery
- —印半纏livery coat
- —後半生latter half of one's life
- —三つ半three-stroke alarm
- —三行半three and a half lines
- —西半球western hemisphere; the Occident
- —前半期the first half-year; first half of the year
- —東半球eastern hemisphere; the Orient
- —南半球southern hemisphere
- —半か月half a month
- —半か年half a year
- —半意識semiconsciousness; half-consciousness; unconsciousness; subconsciousness
- —半陰影penumbra
- —半陰陽hermaphrodite; intersexual; androgynous; bisexual (characteristics)
- —半円形semicircular