半天
bàn tiān 4–1
half of the day; a long time; quite a while; midair
- Characters
- 2
- 半 · 天
- Syllables
- 2
- bàn tiān
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 7,467
Part of speech: mq,t
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 半天. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 天tiānHSK 1
day; sky; heaven
- 今天jīn tiānHSK 1
today; at the present; now
- 明天míng tiānHSK 1
tomorrow
- 昨天zuó tiānHSK 1
yesterday
- 半bànHSK 1
half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
- 一半yī bànHSK 1
half
- 天气tiān qìHSK 1
weather
- 聊天liáo tiān
to chat; to gossip
- 半场bàn chǎngHSK 7
half of a game or contest; half-court
- 夏天xià tiānHSK 2
summer
- 天堂tiān tángHSK 6
paradise; heaven
- 冬天dōng tiānHSK 2
winter
- 天空tiān kōngHSK 3
sky
- 天使tiān shǐHSK 7
angel
- 整天zhěng tiānHSK 3
all day long; whole day
- 当天dāng tiānHSK 6
on that day
- 白天bái tiānHSK 1
daytime; during the day; day
- 天下tiān xiàHSK 6
land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- 半夜bàn yèHSK 2
midnight; in the middle of the night
- 春天chūn tiānHSK 2
spring (season)
- 天才tiān cáiHSK 5
talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted
- 天生tiān shēngHSK 7
nature; disposition; innate; natural
- 天上tiān shàngHSK 2
celestial; heavenly
- 天真tiān zhēnHSK 4
naive; innocent; artless