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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 半辈子

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
半辈子 bàn bèi zi - half of a lifetime

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
- - 7,282 25,031 14,078

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
bàn- half
- semi-
- incomplete
- (after a number) and a half
bèi- lifetime
- generation
- group of people
- class
- classifier for generations
- (literary) classifier for people
- son
- child
- seed
- egg
- small thing
- 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
- viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
zi- (noun suffix)

Other Words Containing 半辈子

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
半辈子 - - 7,282 25,031 14,078