半年(bàn nián): half a year
HSK 12 characters
half a year
Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
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Word information
- Pinyin
- bàn nián
- Meaning
- half a year
- HSK level
- HSK 1
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
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Example sentences
How 半年 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
她半年后就要出国了。
tā bàn nián hòu jiù yào chū guó le
In half a year she'll be going abroad.
小王休产假了，半年内都不会来上班。
xiǎo wáng xiū chǎn jià le bàn nián nèi dōu bù huì lái shàng bān
Little Wang is on maternity leave. She won't be back to work for six months.
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