半小时 meaning in English
half an hour; 30 minutes
Traditional 半小時15 strokes
Meaning of 半小时
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
bànxiǎoshí
- half an hour; 30 minutes
半小时 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
开了半小时，车就坏了。
The car broke down after half an hour's driving.
你一个半小时以前就应该开始了。
You should've started an hour and a half ago.
她让我等了半小时。
She made me wait for half an hour.
她让他等了半小时。
She kept him waiting half an hour.
我在两个半小时以前就吃了午饭。
I ate lunch two and a half hours ago.
Stroke order for each character
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半 bàn · half · 5 strokes
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小 xiǎo · small · 3 strokes
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时 shí · o'clock · 7 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 半小时.
| 时候 | shíhou | time; length of time |
| 时间 | shíjiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
| 小姐 | xiǎojiě | young lady; miss |
| 小时 | xiǎoshí | hour |
| 有时 | yǒushí | sometimes; now and then |
| 有时候 | yǒushíhou | sometimes |
| 一半 | yībàn | half |
| 小朋友 | xiǎopéngyǒu | child; kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to |
| 半年 | bàn nián | half a year |
| 小学 | xiǎoxué | elementary school; primary school |
| 半天 | bàntiān | half of the day; a long time |
| 小孩儿 | xiǎoháir | erhua variant of 小孩[xiao3 hai2] |
Questions about 半小时
What does 半小时 mean?
半小时 (bànxiǎoshí) means "half an hour; 30 minutes".
How do you write 半小时?
半小时 is made of 3 characters: 半 (5 strokes), 小 (3 strokes), 时 (7 strokes). That is 15 strokes in total.
How is 半小时 written in traditional Chinese?
In traditional characters, 半小时 is written 半小時.