半 — Chinese character
半
bàn
half; semi-, incomplete
- Pinyin
- bàn
- Radical
- 24 ⼗ (Ten)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 丷 牛
- Formation
- ideographic — A cow 牛 splitting 丷 wood in half
- Japanese
- 半 as a kanji
Common words with 半
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一半 | yī bàn | half |
| 半岛 (半島) | bàn dǎo | peninsula |
| 半年 | bàn nián | half a year |
| 半个 (半個) | bàn ge | half of sth |
| 半数 (半數) | bàn shù | half the number; half |
| 上半年 | shàng bàn nián | first half of the year |
| 半天 | bàn tiān | half of the day; a long time |
| 半夜 | bàn yè | midnight; in the middle of the night |
| 多半 | duō bàn | most; mostly |
| 半导体 (半導體) | bàn dǎo tǐ | semiconductor |
| 下半年 | xià bàn nián | second half of the year |
| 半小时 (半小時) | bàn xiǎo shí | half an hour; 30 minutes |
English words written with 半
半 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Art of War 8 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 11 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 10.6
- Art of War 7.9
- Art of War 9.4
- Art of War 9.28
- Art of War 10.7
- Art of War 10.27
- Art of War 10.28
- Art of War 10.29
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.