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
- —半塩水brackish water
- —半音階chromatic scale
- —半可通superficial knowledge; smattering (of); person with superficial knowledge; person who pretends to be knowledgeable; smatterer; dilettante; sciolist
- —半夏生Chinese lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis); 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day
- —半過去imperfect tense
- —半開きpartly open; in half bloom
- —半開国underdeveloped country; half-civilized country; half-civilised country
- —半乾きhalf dry
- —半官的semiofficial
- —半官報semiofficial paper
- —半眼でwith a half-opened eye
- —半貴石semiprecious stones
- —半狂乱half-crazed; frantic
- —半月刊semimonthly (publication)
- —半減期half life
- —半殺しhalf killed
- —半煮えhalf-boiled; half-done
- —半焼けhalf-burnt; half-done; half-baked; rare
- —半身像half-length statue or portrait; bust
- —半身浴half body bathing; hip bath