半日

Chinese

		half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (半日)		半	日

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bànrì

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄖˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun³ jat⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bua⁴ dih⁷ / buann⁴ lih⁷
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pòaⁿ-li̍t / pòaⁿ-ji̍t
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵poe-gniq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bànrì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄖˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bànrìh
    • Wade–Giles: pan⁴-jih⁴
    • Yale: bàn-r̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannryh
    • Palladius: баньжи (banʹži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun³ jat⁶
    • Yale: bun yaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun³ jat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun³ yed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³³ jɐt̚²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: bua⁴ dih⁷ [Phonetic: bua¹ lih⁷]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bua̍ⁿ-di̍h
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pua⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)liʔ⁴/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: buann⁴ lih⁷ [Phonetic: buann¹ lih⁷]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pũã⁴²⁻⁵⁵ liʔ⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-li̍t
    • Tâi-lô: puànn-li̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvoarlit
    • IPA (Taipei): /puã¹¹⁻⁵³ lit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /puã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lit̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ lit̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-ji̍t
    • Tâi-lô: puànn-ji̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvoarjit
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /puã²¹⁻⁴¹ zit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ d͡zit̚¹²¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵poe-gniq
    • MiniDict: poe^去 nyih
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²poe-nyiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pø³³ n̠ʲiɪʔ⁴⁴/

Noun

半日

1. half a day
2. (figurative, hyperbolic) a long time; quite a while; a while; forever

   搞咗半日都未搞掂啊？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   gaau² zo² bun³ jat⁶ dou¹ mei⁶ gaau² dim⁶ aa⁴? [Jyutping]

   You've been doing this the whole day, and you're still not done?

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		半天
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	半天, 半晌
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	半天
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	半晌
	Xi'an	半天
	Xining	半天
	Xuzhou	半天
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	半天
	Ürümqi	半天
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	半天
	Wuhan	半天
	Guiyang	半天
	Liuzhou	半天
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	半天
	Yangzhou	半天
Cantonese	Guangzhou	半晝
	Dongguan	半日
Gan	Nanchang	半日
	Lichuan	半日
	Pingxiang	半工
Hakka	Meixian	半日
	Yudu	半工, 半日
Huizhou	Jixi	半日
Jin	Taiyuan	半天, 半晌
Northern Min	Jian'ou	半工
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	半日
Southern Min	Xiamen	半工, 半日, 半晡
	Quanzhou	半工, 半日
	Zhangzhou	半日
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	半晡仔
	Tainan	半工 GT, 半日 GT, 半晡 GT
	Manila (Hokkien)	半日
	Haikou	半日
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	半日
Wu	Shanghai	半日, 半天, 半白天
	Shanghai (Chongming)	半天, 半日
	Suzhou	半日, 半日天
	Danyang	半天
	Hangzhou	半日
	Ningbo	半日
	Wenzhou	半日
	Jinhua	半日
Xiang	Changsha	半天
	Loudi	半日

Dialectal synonyms of 半天 (“half a day”) [map]

• (a long time): 半天 (bàntiān); (Mainland China) 半晌 (bànshǎng); (Northern Min) 半工

Derived terms

• 偷得浮生半日閒 / 偷得浮生半日闲 (tōu dé fúshēng bànrì xián)
• 半日制 (bànrìzhì)
• 頂半日 / 顶半日

Related terms

• 全日 (quánrì)
• 全天 (quántiān)

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “半日”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 62.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
半	日
はん Grade: 2	にち Grade: 1
on'yomi	goon

Kanji in this term
半	日
はん Grade: 2	じつ Grade: 1
on'yomi	kan'on

Noun

半(はん)日(にち) or 半(はん)日(じつ) • (hannichi or hanjitsu) 

1. half a day