Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese apartment, two siblings share a small round sponge cake that has been cut precisely through the center. Each has an identical semicircular half on a matching plate, with the straight cut edges facing each other.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

半はん々はん

hanhan

half and half, fifty-fifty

Example sentences

  1. 二ふたつのグループが半々はんはんに同社どうしゃを所有しょゆうしている。

    The two groups share equally in the company.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 同社どうしゃは、二ふたつのグループが半々はんはんずつ所有しょゆうしている。

    The company is equally owned by the two groups.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 地域ちいきにより中型車ちゅうがたしゃの多おおい地域ちいきと、小型車こがたしゃの多おおい地域ちいき、中型車ちゅうがたしゃと小型車こがたしゃが半々はんはん程度ていどの地域ちいきがある。

    Some regions have more medium-size cars than compact cars, and vice versa, and some other regions have fifty-fifty ratio.

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

Kanji in 半々

  • 半half; middleOnハンKunなかば

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