半
半 — ban
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 반(半) 반
- Romanization
- ban
- English
- half
- Mandarin
- bàn
- Japanese on'yomi
- ハン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- なか.ば
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #224 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 十 (24, 3 residual)
- Unicode
- U+534A
Parts that make up 半
How 半 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 半 as a ideographic compound involving 八, 牛.
Korean example words with 半
- 반건半乾 Korean gloss: 반쯤 말림
- 반복半腹 Korean gloss: 산의 중턱
- 반일半日 Korean gloss: 하루의 반
- 태반太半 Korean gloss: 반수 이상
- 과반過半 Korean gloss: 절반이 넘음
- 반년半年 Korean gloss: 한 해의 반
- 반량半量 Korean gloss: 절반의 분량
- 반반半半 Korean gloss: 절반의 절반
- 반생半生 Korean gloss: 한평생의 반
- 반신半身 Korean gloss: 온몸의 절반
- 반월半月 Korean gloss: 반원형의 달
- 반파半破 Korean gloss: 반쯤 부서짐
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 半
- 時半じはん half past (the hour)
- 後半こうはん second half; latter half
- 半分はんぶん half
- 前半ぜんはん first half
- 半はん half; semi-; partial
- 大半たいはん majority; more than half; most (of)
- 半数はんすう half the number; half (of an amount); haploid (organism, cell, etc.)
- 半年はんとし half a year; six months
- 過半数かはんすう majority
- 半導体はんどうたい semiconductor
- 朝鮮半島ちょうせんはんとう Korean peninsula
- 半面はんめん while; although; though
Characters sharing the phonetic 半
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “반” in Korean.
Other hanja read “반”
Other hanja with radical 十
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences