はんぶん – Vocabulary details

はんぶん

Meanings

Adverb

Noun

1. half

Alt. forms

半はん分ぶん

99%

はんぶん

Pitch accent

は

んぶ

ん

Used in: 92

Composed of

はん

half; semi-; half-past; odd number; (arch.) unit of land area (595.8 m^2)

ぶん

part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty

Used in vocabulary (10 in total)

はんぶんこ

halfsies; splitting evenly between two people

おもしろはんぶん

for fun; half in jest

じょうだんはんぶん

being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein

きょうみはんぶん

half out of interest; mostly out of curiosity

はなしはんぶん

taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story

あそびはんぶん

half in fun

はんぶんじょうだん

(talking in a) half-joking manner

やくはんぶん

approximately half

しはんぶん

a fourth; quarter

なぐさみはんぶん

partly for fun; capricious

Examples (36 in total)

それははんぶんにカットして。

Cut it in half.

メロンがはんぶん食たべられた。

Half of the melon was eaten.

仕し事ごとのはんぶんはかたづいた。

The job is half done.