Illustration: At a Japanese kitchen table, a parent has cut one thick round pancake straight through its center. The two equal semicircles sit slightly apart on the original plate, their straight edges facing each other so the complete circle remains easy to reconstruct.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

半はん分ぶん

hanbun

half

Example sentences

  1. 半分はんぶん当あたってるわ。

    You’re half right.

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  2. パンを半分はんぶん食たべました。

    I ate half the bread.

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  3. これは半分はんぶんずつにしようよ。

    Let’s split this fifty-fifty.

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Kanji in 半分

  • 半half; middleOnハンKunなかば
  • 分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる

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