In half a year she'll be going abroad.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
半年
half a year
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
half a year
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 半年 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 半年 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Little Wang is on maternity leave. She won't be back to work for six months.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 半年.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 半年.
Directly before
- 她半年1
- 这半年1
Directly after
- 半年后1
- 半年内1
- 半年胖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 半年
What does 半年 mean in Chinese?
半年 (bànnián) means half a year.
How do you pronounce 半年?
半年 is pronounced bànnián.
Is 半年 an HSK word?
半年 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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