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半天

HSK 3#7467 by frequencyradical 十

bàn tiān["mq","t"]

a long time; quite a while; half of the day; midair

Measure word: 个

Examples

他们看了那部电影半天了。

They’ve been watching that film for ages.

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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.