半

HSK 1#727 by frequencyradical 十

bàn["m"]

half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half

Examples

我想买半个蛋糕。

I'd like to buy half a cake.

我等了接近半小时。

I was kept waiting for nearly half an hour.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.