| 半 | bàn | half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half |
| 半径 | bàn jìng | radius |
| 半导体 | bàn dǎo tǐ | semiconductor |
| 半年 | bàn nián | half a year |
| 半个 | bàn ge | half of sth |
| 半天 | bàn tiān | half of the day; a long time; quite a while; CL:个 |
| 半殖民地 | bàn zhí mín dì | semi-colonial |
| 半数 | bàn shù | half the number; half |
| 半音 | bàn yīn | semitone |
| 半夜 | bàn yè | midnight; in the middle of the night |
| 半球 | bàn qiú | hemisphere |
| 半封建 | bàn fēng jiàn | semi-feudal |
| 半成品 | bàn chéng pǐn | semi-manufactured goods; semi-finished articles; semi-finished products |
| 半岛 | bàn dǎo | peninsula; Al Jazeera (Arabic-language news network) |
| 半晌 | bàn shǎng | half of the day; a long time; quite a while |
| 半截 | bàn jié | half (of a section); half-finished |
| 半路 | bàn lù | halfway; midway; on the way |
| 半透明 | bàn tòu míng | translucent; semitransparent |
| 半点 | bàn diǎn | the least bit |
| 半场 | bàn chǎng | half of a game or contest; half-court |
| 半工半读 | bàn gōng bàn dú | part work, part study; work-study program |
| 半边 | bàn biān | half of sth; one side of sth |
| 半封建半殖民地 | bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dì | semi-feudal and semi-colonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang) |
| 半衰期 | bàn shuāi qī | half-life |
| 半途 | bàn tú | halfway; midway |
| 半途而废 | bàn tú ér fèi | to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished |
| 半自动 | bàn zì dòng | semi-automatic |
| 半边天 | bàn biān tiān | half the sky; women of the new society; women folk |
| 半月刊 | bàn yuè kān | fortnightly; twice a month |
| 半死 | bàn sǐ | half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc); (tired) to death; (terrified) out of one's wits; (beaten) to within an inch of one's life; (knock) the daylights out of sb |
| 半生 | bàn shēng | half a lifetime |
| 半辈子 | bàn bèi zi | half of a lifetime |
| 半失业 | bàn shī yè | semi-employed; partly employed; underemployed |
| 半真半假 | bàn zhēn bàn jiǎ | (idiom) half true and half false |
| 半世纪 | bàn shì jì | half century |
| 半中腰 | bàn zhōng yāo | middle; halfway |
| 半乳糖 | bàn rǔ táng | galactose (CH2O)6; brain sugar |
| 半乳糖血症 | bàn rǔ táng xuè zhèng | galactosemia |
| 半人马 | bàn rén mǎ | centaur (mythology) |
| 半人马座 | Bàn rén mǎ zuò | Centaurus (constellation) |
| 半以上 | bàn yǐ shàng | more than half |
| 半保留复制 | bàn bǎo liú fù zhì | semiconservative replication |
| 半信半疑 | bàn xìn bàn yí | half-believe, half-doubt |
| 半个世纪 | bàn ge shì jì | half a century |
| 半价 | bàn jià | half price |
| 半公斤 | bàn gōng jīn | half kilo |
| 半公开 | bàn gōng kāi | semi-overt; more or less open |
| 半劳动力 | bàn láo dòng lì | one able to do light manual labor only; semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker |
| 半半拉拉 | bàn bàn lā lā | incomplete; unfinished |
| 半吊子 | bàn diào zi | dabbler; smatterer; tactless and impulsive person |
