Illustration: At a Japanese apartment’s gardening table, an adult removes the sixth monthly sheet from a twelve-sheet calendar. Six removed sheets lie individually fanned across the table, while the six remaining sheets are visibly separated at their lower corners; each sheet carries only a plain calendar grid.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

半はん年とし

hantoshi

half a year, six months

Also read はんねん. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

彼かれが東京とうきょうに行いってから半年はんとしになります。
It is half a year since he went to Tokyo.
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彼かれらはその家いえを建たてるのに半年はんとしをかけた。
They spent six months building the house.
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あと半年はんとししたら、彼女かのじょは外国がいこくへ行いってしまう。
She’ll be going abroad in another six months.
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Kanji in 半年

半half; middleOnハンKunなかば
年year; counter for yearsOnネンKunとし

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