大半

大半

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
simp. and trad. (大半)		大	半

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàbàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ bun³
• Min Nan (POJ): tōa-pòaⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dàbàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbann
    • IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ pän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ bun³
    • Yale: daaih bun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ bun³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ bun³
    • IPA ^(key): /täːi̯²² puːn³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-pòaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-puànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxpvoax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ puã²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² puã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ puã²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ puã¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ puã²¹/

Noun

大半

1. more than half; the greater part

Derived terms

一大半 大半天 (dàbàntiān) 大半年 大半拉

大半生 (dàbànshēng) 大半輩子／大半辈子 居其大半

Adverb

大半

1. very likely; most probably

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	半
たい Grade: 1	はん Grade: 2
on’yomi

Noun

大半 (hiragana たいはん, rōmaji taihan)

1. the greater part, most of