IDENTITY
半bànhalf
HSK 1Top 520
CORE MEANING
half
- Part of speech
- numeral
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.halfHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 丷eight radical (bā)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- ⿱丷⿻二丨
- top marks
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
半天bàntiānhalf a day
一半yíbànone half
Graded examples
现在三点半。Xiànzài sān diǎn bàn.HSK1
It is half past three now.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
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POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A knife cutting an ox in two (八, from 牛) — half. (Old: splitting an ox.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #520
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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