Initial:bVideo guide
Final(T3):ànVideo guide
Radical:
Structure:Single-component character
Strokes:
5
Traditional:
半
ReadWriteQuiz
Chinese dictionary
- 1
num.half
给我来半打啤酒。
Give me half a dozen beers.
我已经学过半年汉语了。
I have studied Chinese for half a year.
请沿着这条路走半英里。
Please walk half a mile down the road.
synonym
- 2
num.halfway; in the middle of
车子在半路上抛锚了。
The car broke down halfway.
他家住在半山腰。
His lives halfway up the mountain.
烟抽到一半时，她一阵咳嗽。
Halfway down the cigarette she had a fit of coughing.
synonym
- 3
adv.partly; about half; partially
他吃了个半饱。
He ate partly full.
房门半开着。
The door was left half open.
她的双眼半闭着。
Her eyes were half closed.
- 4
num.metavery little; the least bit
他半句话也没有说。
He didn't say a thing.
我今天身上半分钱也没带。
I haven't got a penny on me today.
Words and phrases with 半
- 半文盲[word]semi-literate
- 半结[word]half-hitch
- 半死[word]half-dead
- 半年[word]half a year
- 半机械化[word]semi-mechanization
- 半条命[word]someone who is seriously ill and very weak
- 半球[word]halfsphere
- 半价[word]half price
- 半辈子[word]half a lifetime
- 半途而废[idiom]give up halfway
- 半死不活[idiom]half-dead; low-spirited
- 半身不遂[idiom]hemiplegia
- 半工半读[idiom]work-study programme
- 半斤八两[idiom]six of one and half a dozen of the other
- 半真半假[idiom]half-genuine and half-sham; half in jest, half in earnest
- 半壁江山[idiom]half of the country
- 半生不熟[idiom]half cooked/done; half-competent
- 半夜三更[idiom]late at night; #$