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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
bàn - half
- semi-
- incomplete
- (after a number) and a half

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
3 1 612 844 615

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

A cow 牛 splitting 丷 wood in half

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
3 1 612 844 615
一半 - 1 1,117 1,994 1,327
半夜 - 2 3,870 4,558 1,610
半辈子 - - 7,282 25,031 14,078
多半 - 6 9,260 11,208 10,613
半死 - - 9,497 23,538 11,044
大半 - - 10,522 7,740 6,137
半天 - 1 10,559 4,406 2,466
半数 - 8 11,336 11,992 24,714
半径 - - 11,659 14,832 30,368
半点 - - 11,774 12,474 14,313
半生 - - 11,776 22,932 12,239
半岛 - 8 12,127 13,594 15,846
半路 - 8 12,591 18,305 12,696
半途而废 6 8 13,642 37,186 26,099
半决赛 - 6 14,546 6,497 21,044
半空 - - 15,886 20,444 29,942
半边 - - 17,164 23,241 18,498
半价 - - 17,194 19,922 9,655
半自动 - - 19,519 41,723 54,057
半球 - - 20,604 18,421 30,969
半身像 - - 21,370 101,164 89,106
上半场 - - 22,071 - -
减半 - - 22,087 24,502 28,424
参半 - - 22,293 53,553 46,224
半截 - - 25,145 21,562 20,853
半夜三更 - - 25,671 31,592 14,110
北半球 - - 26,402 35,701 24,448
南半球 - - 27,639 46,051 33,427
过半 - 9 27,938 17,186 19,184
对半 - - 31,976 39,509 23,845
夜半 - - 32,807 31,826 18,501
西半球 - - 33,168 64,465 73,965
巴尔干半岛 - - 33,208 72,957 53,861
半斤八两 - - 33,361 60,796 36,614
半成品 - - 33,882 22,658 26,477
事半功倍 - - 33,943 23,746 20,563
半导体 - - 34,296 12,360 32,548
一知半解 - - 35,687 47,750 43,107
半吊子 - - 36,794 73,819 44,055
半身不遂 - - 36,831 57,105 45,875
喜忧参半 - - 36,922 45,588 40,719
半圆 - - 37,196 49,749 43,272
半边天 - 9 38,647 37,387 38,459
一星半点 - - 40,087 77,916 55,273
下半年 - - 40,557 - -
半生不熟 - - 42,137 70,308 47,698
小半 - - 42,555 38,221 25,332
半信半疑 - 9 42,643 37,671 35,336
半音 - - 49,015 104,324 92,051
下半时 - - 49,478 16,127 60,587
一年半载 - - 52,608 53,489 48,134
上半时 - - 53,017 17,602 58,197
半壁江山 - - 53,996 27,376 43,456
半路出家 - - 57,143 69,641 70,722
阿拉伯半岛 - - 59,250 81,193 85,679
毁誉参半 - - 61,329 79,870 85,673
半票 - - 63,250 89,484 74,437
前半夜 - - 63,600 85,616 46,584
半公开 - - 65,034 - -
半工半读 - - 67,100 53,268 70,894
半衰期 - - 67,650 34,806 84,790
半瓶醋 - - 67,874 - 113,837
上半年 - - 68,456 3,291 11,333
上半叶 - - 73,936 - -
半大 - - 82,212 53,088 47,667
半年 - 1 82,303 1,987 2,954
半百 - - 83,541 55,748 50,422
上半夜 - - 87,969 80,103 56,983
半推半就 - - 92,878 71,587 61,918
半圆形 - - 94,779 51,118 56,014