過半

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See also: 过半

Chinese

		to cross; to go over; (experienced action marker) to cross; to go over; (experienced action marker); to pass; to celebrate; to live; to get along; excessively; too-	half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
trad. (過半)		過	半
simp. (过半)		过	半

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guòbàn

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄅㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwo³ bun³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guòbàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄅㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guòbàn
  - Wade–Giles: kuo⁴-pan⁴
  - Yale: gwò-bàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guohbann
  - Palladius: гобань (gobanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ pän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gwo³ bun³
  - Yale: gwo bun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwo³ bun³
  - Guangdong Romanization: guo³ bun³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔː³³ puːn³³/

Verb

過半

to pass the halfway point

Japanese

Kanji in this term
過	半
か Grade: 5	はん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かはん (Heiban – )^[1]^[2]
(Tokyo) かはん (Atamadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

過(か)半(はん) • (kahan) ^{←くわはん (kwafan)^?}

greater half; more than half; majority
- 1916, Mori Ōgai, Takasabune‎:
  
  高(たか)瀬(せ)舟(ぶね)に乗(の)る罪(ざい)人(にん)の過(か)半(はん)は、いわゆる心(こころ)得(え)違(ちが)いのために、思(おも)わぬ科(とが)を犯(おか)した人(ひと)であった。
  Takasebune ni noru zainin no kahan wa, iwayuru kokoroechigai no tame ni, omowanu toga o okashita hito de atta.
  Over half of the prisoners on the boat were people who had been convicted for what we might call human mistakes, people who had unwittingly committed some serious offense.^[3]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Takumi KASHIMA (加島巧) and Loretta LORENZ, transl. (2007 December 30), “Takasebune (English Translation of Mori Ogai's Takasebune)”, in 長崎外大論叢‎

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