半儿

半兒
bànr
noun #31,198

Meanings

  1. 1 a half (colloquial, with erhua suffix)
  2. 2 half a portion

Examples

Nǐ bāng wǒ chī yí bànr.
Help me eat half of it.
Shìqing cái zuò le bànr.
I've only finished half of it.

Tips

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

Stroke Order

bàn
ér