Illustration: In a Japanese home kitchen, a parent and child look toward a large analog wall clock with twelve plain hour ticks and no numerals. Its long minute hand points exactly downward, and its short hour hand sits halfway between the upper-right neighboring hour marks.

JLPT N5suffixLevel estimated by Bebop

時じ半はん

jihan

half past the hour

Used after an hour number, as in 六時半. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. ８時半じはんちょうどです。

    It’s exactly half-past eight.

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  2. 朝あさ６時半じはんに起おきます。

    I wake up at half past six in the morning.

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  3. 6時半じはんに会あいましょう。

    Let’s meet at 6:30.

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Kanji in 時半

  • 時time; hourOnジKunとき
  • 半half; middleOnハンKunなかば

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