半 bàn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 十 — ten, tenth
- Made of
- 丷 horns 牛 ox, cow, bull
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
半径
bànjìng
radius
Characters in this word
径 jìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 彳 — to step with the left foot
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 事故发生后，警方在两公里半径内设置了临时封锁线。 Shìgù fāshēng hòu, jǐngfāng zài liǎng gōnglǐ bànjìng nèi shèzhì le línshí fēngsuǒxiàn. After the accident, the police set up a temporary cordon within a two-kilometre radius.
- 圆的半径是五厘米，请算一下它的面积。 Yuán de bànjìng shì wǔ límǐ, qǐng suàn yíxià tā de miànjī. The radius of the circle is five centimetres; please work out its area.
- 以学校为中心，半径一公里内有三家书店。 Yǐ xuéxiào wéi zhōngxīn, bànjìng yì gōnglǐ nèi yǒu sān jiā shūdiàn. Within a one-kilometre radius of the school there are three bookshops.
Related words
- 半 bàn half
- 半年 bànnián half a year
- 半天 bàntiān half a day
- 一半 yíbàn half
- 半夜 bànyè midnight; late at night
- 半边天 bànbiāntiān women; half the sky
- 半岛 bàndǎo peninsula
- 半导体 bàndǎotǐ semiconductor
- 半数 bànshù half; half the number
- 半途而废 bàntú'érfèi to give up halfway
- 半信半疑 bànxìnbànyí half-believing, half-doubting; sceptical
- 多半 duōbàn most; for the most part; probably