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
anagram		半大

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàbàn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ bun³
Min Nan (POJ): tōa-pòaⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàbàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dàbàn
  - Wade–Giles: ta⁴-pan⁴
  - Yale: dà-bàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbann
  - Palladius: дабань (dabanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ pän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ bun³
  - Yale: daaih bun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ bun³
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ bun³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² 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

more than half; the greater part

Synonyms

多半 (duōbàn)

Derived terms

一大半
大半天 (dàbàntiān)
大半年
大半拉

大半生 (dàbànshēng)
居其大半
大半輩子／大半辈子

Adverb

大半

very likely; most probably

Synonyms

多半 (duōbàn)
大概 (dàgài)
想必 (xiǎngbì)

多半兒／多半儿 (duōbànr) (Beijing)
大約／大约 (dàyuē)
大約摸／大约摸 (dàyuēmō) (colloquial)

Japanese

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

Noun

大(たい)半(はん) • (taihan)

the greater part, most of

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