多半

Chinese

		many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-	half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
trad. (多半)		多	半
simp. #(多半)		多	半

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duōbàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛ ㄅㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): do¹ bun³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): to͘-pòaⁿ / to-pòaⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duōbàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛ ㄅㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duobàn
    • Wade–Giles: to¹-pan⁴
    • Yale: dwō-bàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duobann
    • Palladius: добань (dobanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ pän⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (多半兒 / 多半儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duōbànr
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛ ㄅㄢˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duobànr
    • Wade–Giles: to¹-pan⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: dwō-bànr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duoball
    • Palladius: добаньр (dobanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ pɑɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: do¹ bun³
    • Yale: dō bun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: do¹ bun³
    • Guangdong Romanization: do¹ bun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔː⁵⁵ puːn³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: to͘-pòaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: too-puànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: do'pvoax
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ³³ puã⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: to-pòaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: to-puànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doi'pvoax
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /to⁴⁴⁻²² puã²¹/

Adverb

多半

1. probably; most likely

   如果一件事情好到不像是真的，多半不是真的。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Rúguǒ yī jiàn shìqíng hǎo dào bù xiàng shì zhēn de, duōbàn bù shì zhēn de. [Pinyin]

   If something sounds too good to be true it probably is.

Synonyms

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• 博濟 / 博济 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 多半兒 / 多半儿 (duōbànr) (Beijing Mandarin)
• 大半 (dàbàn)
• 大概 (dàgài)
• 大約 / 大约 (dàyuē)
• 大約摸 / 大约摸 (dàyuēmō) (colloquial)
• 想必 (xiǎngbì)
• 無慮 / 无虑 (wúlǜ) (literary)

Noun

多半

1. more than half; the greater part

Synonyms

• 大半 (dàbàn)