半

How to remember it

"Han" is like a clock hand pointing halfway — half past the hour.

Example sentences

• 今は二時半です。

  いまはにじはんです。

  It is now half past two.

• 三時半に会いましょう。

  さんじはんにあいましょう。

  Let's meet at three-thirty.

Usage

Attached to clock times to mean "half past."

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