半年

Character by character

• 半bàn5 strokesHSK 1half
• 年nián6 strokesHSK 1year; new-years; person's age

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 她半年后就要出国了。

  Tā bàn nián hòu jiù yào chū guó le

  In half a year she'll be going abroad.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 半年. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 年niánHSK 1

  grain; harvest (old); variant of 年

• 半bànHSK 1

  half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half

• 今年jīn niánHSK 1

  this year

• 去年qù niánHSK 1

  last year

• 年轻nián qīngHSK 2

  young

• 年代nián dàiHSK 3

  a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period

• 一半yī bànHSK 1

  half

• 年龄nián língHSK 5

  (a person's) age

• 明年míng niánHSK 1

  next year

• 半场bàn chǎngHSK 7

  half of a game or contest; half-court

• 当年dāng niánHSK 5

  in those days; then; in those years; during that time

• 新年xīn niánHSK 1

  New Year

• 年纪nián jìHSK 3

  age

• 青年qīng niánHSK 2

  youth; youthful years; young person; the young

• 周年zhōu niánHSK 2

  anniversary; annual

• 年度nián dùHSK 5

  year (e.g. school year, fiscal year); annual

• 少年shào niánHSK 2

  early youth; youngster; (literary) youth; young man

• 青少年qīng shào niánHSK 2

  adolescent; youth; teenager

• 半夜bàn yèHSK 2

  midnight; in the middle of the night

• 多年duō niánHSK 4

  many years; for many years; longstanding

• 童年tóng niánHSK 4

  childhood

• 多年来duō nián láiHSK 7

  for the past many years

• 中年zhōng niánHSK 2

  middle age

• 半天bàn tiānHSK 1

  half of the day; a long time; quite a while; midair