半はん

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半はん U+534A, 半
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534A
← 卉
[U+5349] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卋 →
[U+534B]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
0 strokes

Alternative forms[edit]

  • In Korean hanja, the upper component of the character is written in the form of ハ.

Han character[edit]

半はん (Kangxi radical 24, 十じゅう+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 火手かしゅ (FQ), four-corner 90500, composition ⿻丷𰀁(GHTJV) or ⿻八はち𰀁(K))

  1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №18

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2707
  • Dae Jaweon: page 354, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 46, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+534A

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 半はん

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 半はん
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions
Characters in the same phonetic series (半はん) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
半はん *paːns
絆きずな *paːns
靽 *paːns
姅 *paːns, *pʰaːns
拌 *pʰaːn, *baːnʔ
拚 *pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns
坢 *pʰaːnʔ
判はん *pʰaːns
泮 *pʰaːns
頖 *pʰaːns
胖ゆたか *pʰaːns
冸 *pʰaːns
牉 *pʰaːns
柈 *baːn
伴ばん *baːnʔ, *baːns
叛 *baːns
畔ほとり *baːns
袢 *ban

Ideogrammic compound (會意かいい／会意かいい) : 八はち (“to divide”) + 牛うし (“cow”) – to cut a cow into two halves.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *par. Related to 畔ほとり (OC *baːns, “bank between fields”), which is an endopassive of 半はん (OC *paːns, “half”), lit. "be separated from".

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • pòaⁿ - vernacular;
  • poàn - literary.
Rime
Character 半はん
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲こえ) 幫 (1)
Final (韻いん) 桓 (62)
Tone (調しらべ) Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい) Closed
Division (等ひとし) I
Fanqie 博ひろし慢切きり
Baxter panH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/puɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/puɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pwanH/
Li
Rong 		/puɑnH/
Wang
Li 		/puɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/puɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bun3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 半はん
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ panH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁan-s/
English half

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 半はん
Reading # 1/1
No. 243
Phonetic
component 		半はん
Rime
group 		元もと
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		半はん
Old
Chinese 		/*paːns/

Definitions[edit]

半はん

  1. half
    全國ぜんこく人口じんこう的てき一いち半はん／全国ぜんこく人口じんこう的てき一いち半はん  ―  quánguó rénkǒu de yībàn  ―  half of the national population
    一いち磅半はん [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 bong6 bun3 [Jyutping]  ―  1½ pounds
    十じゅう點てん半はん／十じゅう点てん半はん [Cantonese]  ―  sap6 dim2 bun3 [Jyutping]  ―  10:30
  2. very little
  3. halfway, partially, semi-
    半はん醉よい半はん醒  ―  bàn zuì bàn xǐng  ―  partially in a stupor, partially awake
  4. (Hong Kong, informal, neologism) half past
    九きゅう半はん [Cantonese]  ―  gau2 bun3 [Jyutping]  ―  half past nine
  5. (informal, Canada, Quebec, real estate) half room, bathroom
    三さん個こ半はん公おおやけ寓ぐう／三さん个半はん公おおやけ寓ぐう  ―  sān ge bàn gōngyù  ―  a 3.5 apartment (an apartment unit with a kitchen, a bedroom and a living room, plus a bathroom)

Usage notes[edit]

半はん (bàn) + classifier + noun indicate half of something, while number + classifier + 半はん (bàn) + noun means "and a half".

半はん塊かたまり麵包／半はん块面めん包つつみ  ―  bàn kuài miànbāo  ―  half a loaf of bread
兩りょう塊かたまり半はん麵包／两块半はん面めん包つつみ  ―  liǎng kuài bàn miànbāo  ―  two and a half loaves of bread

Compounds[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai 半はん
Kyūjitai
[1]
半はん󠄁
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(Adobe-Japan1)
半はん󠄃
半はん+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
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Kanji[edit]

半はん

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. half

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms

Noun[edit]

半はん(はん) • (han) 

  1. odd (especially of dice)
    Antonyms: 丁ちょう(ちょう) (chō, “even”)

Prefix[edit]

半はん(はん) • (han-) 

  1. half, semi-
    半はん(はん)年とし(とし)
    hantoshi
    semiannual
    半はん(はん)世よ(せい)紀きの(き)
    hanseiki
    semicentennial
Antonyms

Suffix[edit]

半はん(はん) • (-han) 

  1. and a half
    四よん(よん)倍ばい(ばい)半はん(はん)
    yon-bai han
    four and a half times
    二に(に)十じゅう(じゅう)二に(に)年とし(ねん)半はん(はん)
    nijūni-nen han
    twenty-two and a half years

References[edit]

  1. ^ “半はん”, in 漢字かんじぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎[1] (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会にほんかんじのうりょくけんていきょうかい, 2015–2024

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese 半はん (MC panH). Recorded as Middle Korean 반 (pan) (Yale: pan) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新しん增ぞう類るい合あい / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [pa̠(ː)n]
  • Phonetic hangul: [반(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

半はん (eumhun 반 반 (ban ban))

  1. Hanja form? of 반 (“half”).

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際こくさい退すさ溪けい學會がっかい 大邱たいきゅう慶けい北きた支部しぶ) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子でんし字典じてん. [2]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

半はん: Hán Việt readings: bán (博ひろし(bác)漫(mạn)切きり(thiết))[1][2][3][4][5]
半はん: Nôm readings: bán[1][2][3][4][5][6], bớn[3][4][5][6], bướng[3][7], vắn[1], búng[2], bận[3], ban[3], bướn[5]

  1. chữ Hán form of bán (“half”).
  2. Nôm form of vắn (“short, brief”).
  3. Nôm form of bán (“to sell”).
  4. Nôm form of bớn.

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Trần (2004).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bonet (1899).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Génibrel (1898).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).
  7. ^ Hồ (1976).
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