過半

See also: 过半

Chinese

		to cross; to go over; (experienced action marker) to cross; to go over; (experienced action marker); to pass; to celebrate; to live; to get along; excessively; too-	half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
trad. (過半)		過	半
simp. (过半)		过	半

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guòbàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄅㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwo³ bun³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guòbàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄅㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guòbàn
    • Wade–Giles: kuo⁴-pan⁴
    • Yale: gwò-bàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guohbann
    • Palladius: гобань (gobanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ pän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwo³ bun³
    • Yale: gwo bun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwo³ bun³
    • Guangdong Romanization: guo³ bun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔː³³ puːn³³/

Verb

過半

1. to pass the halfway point

Japanese

Kanji in this term
過	半
か Grade: 5	はん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かはん [kàháń] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) かはん [káꜜhàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠hã̠ɴ]

Noun

過(か)半(はん) • (kahan) ^{←くわはん (kwafan)?}

1. greater half; more than half; majority
   • 1916, Mori Ōgai, Takasabune [The Boat on the Takase River]‎^[2]:

     高(たか)瀬(せ)舟(ぶね)に乗(の)る罪(ざい)人(にん)の過(か)半(はん)は、いわゆる心(こころ)得(え)違(ちが)いのために、思(おも)わぬ科(とが)を犯(おか)した人(ひと)であった。

     Takasebune ni noru zainin no kahan wa, iwayuru kokoroechigai no tame ni, omowanu toga o okashita hito de atta.

     Over half of the prisoners on the boat were people who had been convicted for what we might call human mistakes, people who had unwittingly committed some serious offense.