I was kept waiting for nearly half an hour.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
半小时
half hour
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
half hour
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 半小时 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 半小时 appears in 13 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She kept me waiting for 30 minutes.
She kept him waiting half an hour.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 半小时.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 半小时.
Directly before
- 了半小时3
- 我们半小时2
- 两个半小时2
- 我半小时1
- 差不多半小时1
Directly after
- 半小时后1
- 半小时以前1
- 半小时温习1
- 半小时停止1
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 半小时
What does 半小时 mean in Chinese?
半小时 (bànxiǎoshí) means half hour.
How do you pronounce 半小时?
半小时 is pronounced bànxiǎoshí.
Is 半小时 an HSK word?
半小时 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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