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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-pòaⁿ

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• 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/
• Southern Min
  • (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

Synonyms

• 多半 (duōbàn)

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

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (大半):

• → Japanese: 大半(たいはん) (taihan)
• → Korean: 대반(大半) (daeban)

Adverb

大半

1. very likely; most probably

Synonyms

• 博濟／博济 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 多半 (duōbàn)
• 多半兒／多半儿 (duōbànr) (Beijing Mandarin)
• 大概 (dàgài)
• 大約／大约 (dàyuē)
• 大約摸／大约摸 (dàyuēmō) (colloquial)
• 想必 (xiǎngbì)
• 無慮／无虑 (wúlǜ) (literary)

 

Japanese

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

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) たいはん [tàíháń] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) たいは​ん [tàíháꜜǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ihã̠ɴ]

Noun

大(たい)半(はん) • (taihan) 

1. the greater part, most of

   Synonyms: 過半 (kahan), 大部分 (daibubun), 大方 (ōkata), たいてい (taitei)