Character Details
| half | Ascii: 38632 | w157 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 半 | bàn | ban | 4 | 牛 (cow) + 八 (split) → half | 半 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - It won't take more than half an hour. | - Good afternoon | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 32 - 丿 | piě | left (or right) leg | left-falling stroke | left‑slanting slash | 片 久 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 牛 (cow) + 八 (split) → half | 十 (semantic) | 牛 (phonetic origin) | ancient split‑cow form | ||||||||