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半天

bàn tiān

HSK 1 · word 12 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

Example sentence

我等了半天。

wǒ děng le bàntiān.

I waited for a long time.

Characters in 半天

half plus day. It is literal in a timetable and figurative in speech, where it means ages.

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