What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 半天 mean?

半天 bàntiān

a long time; quite a while

It can also mean

  • half a day

Its characters

  1. 半 bàn half
  2. 天 tiān sky

In a sentence

我等了你半天了。 I've been waiting for you for ages.

我在这儿看了你半天了。

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