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IDENTITY

bànhalf

HSK 1Top 520

CORE MEANING

half

Part of speech
numeral
Register
neutral

Senses

  1. 1.halfHSK1

FORM & BREAKDOWN

Radical
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

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

Reviewed by
AI-assisted editorial review
Last reviewed
2026-08-15

Sources

  • CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01

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