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半

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 311 / 2,608

Half

On’yomi
はん
Kun’yomi
なか
Radical
十 Ten (Kangxi 24)

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 番 (Number In A Series), less common than 査 (Inspect).

Horns (horns) sit on top and a cow (cow) stands below — a bull with prominent horns has been cut in half, showing that even a horned cow can be split into two equal halves.

In words

半 はん halfN5
半分 はんぶん half minuteN5
半ば なかば middle,half,semi,halfway,partlyN3

半 is rank 311 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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