Illustration: In a Japanese apartment dining area, a person has abandoned repairing a wooden chair and settled on the sofa with a game controller. The chair remains awkwardly tilted, with one replacement leg attached loosely and another lying beside it.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

中ちゅう途と半はん端ぱ

chuutohanpa

half-done, half-hearted

Example sentences

  1. 仕事しごとを中途半端ちゅうとはんぱにするな。

    Don’t leave your work half done.

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  2. このレポート、中途半端ちゅうとはんぱだな。

    This report is incomplete.

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  3. 中途半端ちゅうとはんぱな気持きもちでやるなよ。

    Don’t do things halfheartedly.

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Kanji in 中途半端

  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる
  • 途route; wayOnトKunみち
  • 半half; middleOnハンKunなかば
  • 端edge; originOnタンKunはし・は・はた

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