半 bàn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 十 — ten, tenth
- Made of
- 丷 kwukyel 牛 ox, cow, bull
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
半天
bàntiān
half a day
Characters in this word
Example phrases
- 我看了半天书。 Wǒ kàn le bàntiān shū. I read for half the day.
- 他找了半天。 Tā zhǎo le bàntiān. He looked for it for ages.
- 我们走了半天。 Wǒmen zǒu le bàntiān. We walked for half the day.