Illustration: At a kitchen table, a serving tray has eight identical shallow dumpling recesses arranged in two neat rows. Four recesses still hold dumplings; the other four retain crumbs and small sauce traces.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

半はん減げん

hangen

to halve, to fall by half

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれの収入しゅうにゅうは退職後たいしょくご半減はんげんした。

    His income was diminished by half after retirement.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. その計画けいかくに対たいする興味きょうみが半減はんげんした。

    I lost half my interest in the project.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 目標もくひょうは、首都圏しゅとけんおよび京阪地区けいはんちくに飛来ひらいする花粉かふんの発生源はっせいげんを10年間ねんかんで半減はんげんさせるもの。

    The project aims to halve the sources of pollen carried to the Tokyo area and the Kyoto-Osaka region within 10 years.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 半減

  • 半half; middleOnハンKunなかば
  • 減dwindle; decreaseOnゲンKunへる・へらす

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