減半

Chinese

		to lower; to decrease; to reduce to lower; to decrease; to reduce; to subtract; to diminish	half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
trad. (減半)		減	半
simp. (减半)		减	半

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiǎnbàn

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˇ ㄅㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gaam² bun³
Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): kiám-pòaⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jiǎnbàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˇ ㄅㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jiǎnbàn
  - Wade–Giles: chien³-pan⁴
  - Yale: jyǎn-bàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeanbann
  - Palladius: цзяньбань (czjanʹbanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ pän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gaam² bun³
  - Yale: gáam bun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gaam² bun³
  - Guangdong Romanization: gam² bun³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːm³⁵ puːn³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiám-pòaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: kiám-puànn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kiafmpvoax
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kiam⁵³⁻⁴⁴ puã²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiam⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ puã⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiam⁵³⁻⁴⁴ puã²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kiam⁵³⁻⁴⁴ puã¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiam⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ puã²¹/

Verb

減半

to reduce by half
- 自是始征伐四夷，師出三十餘年，天下戶口減半。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  自是始征伐四夷，师出三十余年，天下户口减半。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Book of Han, circa 1^st century CE
  Zìshì shǐ zhēngfá sìyí, shī chū sānshí yú nián, tiānxià hùkǒu jiǎnbàn. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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