First opened Tuesday, September 1, 2026
半端
はんぱ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
fragment, fraction, incompleteness
Taken apart
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In a sentence
半端な時間に自転車に乗るだけだ。
I only ride a bicycle at odd times.
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What Wiktionary says
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