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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

一个半

yīgebàn

one and a half

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

one and a half

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 一个半 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一个半 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

你一个半小时以前就应该开始了。nǐ yí gè bàn xiǎo shí yǐ qián jiù yīng gāi kāi shǐ le。

You should've started an hour and a half ago.

我等了一个半小时。wǒ děng le yí gè bàn xiǎo shí。

No published English translation for this sentence.

我花了一个半小时的时间解决这个问题。wǒ huā le yí gè bàn xiǎo shí de shí jiān jiě jué zhè ge wèn tí。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 一个半.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一个半.

Directly before

  • 了一个半2
  • 你一个半1

Directly after

  • 一个半小时3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 一个半

What does 一个半 mean in Chinese?

一个半 (yīgebàn) means one and a half.

How do you pronounce 一个半?

一个半 is pronounced yīgebàn.

Is 一个半 an HSK word?

一个半 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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