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Chinese
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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)
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過
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半
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| simp. (过半)
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过
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半
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Pronunciation
Verb
過半
- to pass the halfway point
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
過半 • (kahan) ←くわはん (kwafan)?
- greater half; more than half; majority
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- 高瀬舟に乗る罪人の過半は、いわゆる心得違いのために、思わぬ科を犯した人であった。
- 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 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (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 [The Journal of Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies]