時半

じはん

Meanings

1. Suffix half past (the hour) (as 六時半, etc.)

Kanji

• 時 time. Read as ジ.
• 半 half. Read as ハン.

Example sentences

• 授業が始まるのは８時半からだ。
  Class doesn't begin until eight-thirty.
• 学校は三時半に終わる。
  School is over at 3:30.
• 学校は８時半に始まりますか。
  Does school start at eight-thirty?
• 授業は８時半に始まる。
  School begins at eight-thirty.
• 学校は８時半から始まる。
  School begins at eight-thirty.

Words containing 時半

• 九時半の玉突き (くじはんのたまつき) Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959 novel by Heinrich Böll)

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