半
bàn HSK1

half

半 bàn
half numeral
one half; semi-; specifically used after a number and a measure word to mean "and a half"

她把苹果切成了两半。

tā bǎ píng​guǒ qiē chéng le liǎng bàn.

She cut the apple in half.

partly adverbadjective
partly; about half; halfway; incomplete or not fully

半满还是半空？

bàn mǎn hái​shi bàn kōng?

Half full or half empty?

middle noun
(bound form) in the middle of a time or place; midway
very little
(bound form) a tiny amount; the least bit
surname Ban
a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
513th most common 414.4 per million
Movie subtitles
610th most common 232.9 per million appears in 70% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
160.6 per million appears in 47% of films
Written text
151.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+534A

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)