下半场

下半場
xiàbànchǎng
noun HSK 7-9

Meanings

  1. 1 second half (of a game or performance)
  2. 2 the latter half

Examples

HSK 4
Xiàbànchǎng gāng kāishǐ shí fēnzhōng, tāmen jiù lián jìn liǎng qiú.
Ten minutes into the second half they scored twice in a row.
HSK 4
Rénshēng de xiàbànchǎng, zhòngyào de bú shì sùdù, ér shì fāngxiàng.
In the second half of life what matters is direction, not speed.
HSK 6
Jiàoliàn zài zhōngchǎng xiūxi shí huàn le liǎng gè rén, xiàbànchǎng jiézòu wánquán biàn le.
The coach made two substitutions at the interval and the tempo changed completely after the break.

Tips

usage
Pairs with 上半场, and the break between the two is 中场休息. The word travels well beyond sport: a career, a project or a life is routinely described as being in its 下半场.
mistakes
takes the third tone here, the reading used for a match or a performance. Second-tone means a threshing floor and shows up only in rural words such as 场院.

Stroke Order

xià
bàn
chǎng