はんぶん
Meanings
Adverb
Noun
1. half
Kanji used
half
part
Pitch accent
んぶ
Top 1000
Composed of
half; semi-; half-past; odd number; (arch.) unit of land area (595.8 m^2)
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story
being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein
halfsies; splitting evenly between two people
(talking in a) half-joking manner
approximately half
for fun; half in jest
half out of interest; mostly out of curiosity
a fourth; quarter
partly for fun; capricious
Examples (36 in total)
Cut it in half.
Half of the melon was eaten.
The job is half done.