Illustration: A child and parent cross a short wooden footbridge over a narrow irrigation canal beside Japanese vegetable plots. The child has stopped exactly at the midpoint to watch a duck passing underneath, leaving equal lengths of planked walkway between them and each bank.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

半なかば

nakaba

middle, halfway point

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは４０代だい半なかばで再婚さいこんした。
She married again in her mid-forties.
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東京とうきょうでは、１１月じゅういちがつ半なかばに寒さむい季節きせつが始はじまります。
In Tokyo, the cold season starts in the middle of November.
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人生じんせいとは何なにであるかを知しったとき、すでに生涯しょうがいの半なかばは過すぎている。
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
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Kanji in 半

半half; middleOnハンKunなかば

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