過半
See also: 过半
Chinese edit
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 | ||
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trad. (過半) | 過 | 半 | |
simp. (过半) | 过 | 半 |
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
過半
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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過 | 半 |
か Grade: 5 |
はん Grade: 2 |
on’yomi |
Pronunciation edit
- (Tokyo) かはん [kàháń] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
- (Tokyo) かはん [káꜜhàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
- IPA(key): [ka̠hã̠ɴ]
Noun edit
- greater half; more than half; majority
- 1916, 森鷗外 [Mori Ōgai], 高瀬舟 (Takase-bune)[2]:
- 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]
- 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。
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: 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][1]