Used as a prefix or noun to indicate half of something, or something incomplete/partial. Very common in compounds.
このケーキの半分を食べてもいい？
Can I eat half of this cake?
I moved to Japan half a year ago.
half-past
Used as a suffix after an hour number to indicate half-past that hour.
The meeting starts at half past three.
Refers to an odd number, often used in contrast to 丁 (even number).
See also: 丁
If an odd number comes up on the dice, you win.
Archaic unit of land area, approximately 595.8 square meters. Not used in modern contexts.
It is recorded that this village had five han of rice paddies in the Edo period.
The meeting took an hour and a half.
Let's meet at 3:30.
He bets on odd or even in the dice game.
half a year; six months
majority; most; more than half · mostly; largely; mainly
remnant; fragment; incomplete set; incompleteness · fraction; remainder; odd amount · halfway; half-hearted; perfunctory · irresponsible; foolish; half-baked
half price; half the amount
half the number; half (of an amount) · haploid; haplont
solder; pewter
semiconductor
radius
half a day; half day
halving; reduction by half
short sleeves; short-sleeved
half-moon · half a month · semicircle
half of the body; half length
half and half; fifty-fifty
half-cooked; soft-boiled; half-done · half-ripe; unripe
half-width characters; single-byte characters
half a lifetime; one's life so far
half-nakedness; semi-nudity
four-and-a-half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room · small room for assignations; love nest
semipermanent; semipermanence
half in doubt; half-convinced; dubious; incredulous
pounded fish cake; hanpen · half a slice; half a ticket; ticket stub
partial destruction; half-destroyed
feigned ignorance; pretending not to know
half killed; beaten half to death
halving; splitting evenly; sharing equally
semicircle; half circle