半儿

半兒
bànr
noun #31,198

Meanings

  1. 1 a half
  2. 2 half a portion

Examples

HSK 2
一半儿
Nǐ bāng wǒ chī yíbànr.
Help me eat half of it.
HSK 3
Shìqing cái zuò le bànr.
I've only finished half of it.

Tips

register
Colloquial Beijing and northern speech. + erhua = bànr, same meaning as plain 'half', but warmer and more spoken-feeling. Often appears in 一半儿 (yíbànr, 'a half'), 多半儿 (duōbànr, 'most likely / for the most part'), 后半儿 (hòubànr, 'the latter half').
grammar
Erhua merges the into the previous syllable's coda. Written 半儿, pronounced as one syllable bànr.

Stroke Order

bàn
ér