bàn​gān​bù​gà

neither one thing nor the other

  1. bàn adverbadjective
    partly
    partly; about half; halfway; incomplete or not fully
  2. [idiom]
    used in the idiom 半间不界 bàn​gān​bù​gà, meaning halfway; neither one thing nor the other
  3. adverb
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  4. boundary
    (bound form) a boundary, border, or limit; a place where two areas meet