好半天
 hǎo bàn tiān
 Pinyin
Definition
好半天
 - 
              - most of the day
 
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 today
 - 2 at the present
 - 3 now
 
- 1 day
 - 2 sky
 - 3 heaven
 
- 1 good
 - 2 well
 - 3 proper
 - 4 good to
 - 5 easy to
 - 6 very
 - 7 so
 - 8 (suffix indicating completion or readiness)
 - 9 (of two people) close
 - 10 on intimate terms
 - 11 (after a personal pronoun) hello
 
- 1 good-looking
 - 2 nice-looking
 - 3 good (of a movie, book, TV show etc)
 - 4 embarrassed
 - 5 humiliated
 
- 1 tomorrow
 
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
  - 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
 - 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
 - 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
 - 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
 
一个天南,一个地北
  - 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
 
一柱擎天
  - 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
 - 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
 
一步登天
  - 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
 
一瓶子不响,半瓶子晃荡
  - 1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
 - 2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise