Skip to content
Mythic Mandarin

多半 (duō bàn): meaning and stroke order

多半 (duō bàn) means most, mostly, most likely.

多半

Simplified
多半
Traditional
多半 (same form)
Pinyin
duō bàn

Stroke order of 多半

多

  • duō many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

半

  • bàn half; semi-
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 多半

  1. duō bàn
    • most
    • mostly
    • most likely

Radicals of the characters

多
Radical 夕 (Kangxi radical 36) · 6 strokes · 夕 on top, 夕 below
半
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

多半 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 范楠点点头。医生说：“你的心脏和肺都很健康，胸闷多半是太紧张、睡得太少。”

    Fàn Nán diǎndiǎn tóu yīshēng shuō nǐ de xīnzàng hé fèi dōu hěn jiànkāng xiōngmēn duōbàn shì tài jǐnzhāng shuì de tài shǎo

    Fan Nan nodded. The doctor said, "Your heart and lungs are perfectly healthy. The tightness is most likely from stress and too little sleep."

    From the story The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 多半

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).