半 (bàn): meaning and stroke order
半 (bàn) means half, semi-, incomplete, (after a number) and a half.
半
- Simplified
- 半
- Traditional
- 半 (same form)
- Pinyin
- bàn
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Stroke order of 半
半
- bàn half; semi-
- 5 strokes
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Meaning of 半
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bàn
- half
- semi-
- incomplete
- (after a number) and a half
Radical and structure
- 半
- Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 5 strokes
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Words with 半
- 一半 yī bàn half
- 半天 bàn tiān half of the day; a long time
- 半年 bàn nián half a year
- 多半 duō bàn most; mostly
- 半夜 bàn yè midnight; in the middle of the night
- 半边天 bàn biān tiān half the sky; women of the new society
- 半信半疑 bàn xìn bàn yí (idiom) half believing, half doubting; not quite convinced; skeptical
- 半途而废 bàn tú ér fèi to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished
半 in our stories
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一个月以后，她能跑半个小时了。
yí gè yuè yǐhòu tā néng pǎo bàn gè xiǎoshí le
A month later she could run for half an hour.
From the story A little more every day HSK 2
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她提前半个小时就到了，坐在门口一遍一遍地练习准备好的回答。
tā tíqián bàn gè xiǎoshí jiù dào le zuò zài ménkǒu yí biàn yí biàn de liànxí zhǔnbèi hǎo de huídá
She arrives half an hour early and sits by the door going over her prepared answers again and again.
From the story The honest answer HSK 3
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半年后，她有了新朋友，也学会了说一句：“老板，微辣！”
bàn nián hòu tā yǒu le xīn péngyou yě xuéhuì le shuō yí jù lǎobǎn wēi là
Six months later she had new friends, and she had learned to say, "Mildly spicy, please!"
From the story No chilli, please HSK 4
Stories using 半
- A little more every day HSK 2
- The honest answer HSK 3
- No chilli, please HSK 4
- The identical suitcase HSK 4
- Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5
- Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).