Illustration: At a Japanese kitchen table, a parent has cut one round pancake straight through its center into two equal semicircles. The two pieces rest on a large plate with their straight edges facing each other across a narrow gap, making the original circle easy to reconstruct.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

半はん

han

half

Example sentences

  1. 半はん時間じかんしたら彼かれはここに来くるでしょう。

    He will be here in half an hour.

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  2. 私わたしは卵たまごを半はんダース買かった。

    I bought half a dozen eggs.

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  3. 海うみまでわずか半はんマイルだ。

    It is no more than half a mile to the sea.

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Kanji in 半

  • 半half; middleOnハンKunなかば

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