Chinese symbol for “halting”
半生不熟
bàn shēng bù shóu
underripe; half-cooked; (fig.) not mastered (of a technique); clumsy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for halting is 半生不熟 (bàn shēng bù shóu), defined as: underripe; half-cooked; (fig.) not mastered (of a technique); clumsy; halting.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 半生不熟.
| 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 |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 不是 | bù shì | no; is not |
| 成熟 | chéng shú | mature; ripe; to mature; to ripen |
See also: Japanese symbol for “halting”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.