なかば
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. middle; halfway; midway
Noun
2. half (of); one half
Adverb
3. half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly; in part; partially
4. mostly; almost; nearly
Pitch accent
かば
かば
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Composed of
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
beyond the middle
midway; halfway through; in the course of
to be equal in number, degree, etc. (of two things in opposition); to balance; to cancel out
Examples (4 in total)
In Tokyo, the cold season starts in the middle of November.
Tom is in his mid-thirties.
She remarried when she was in her mid-forties.
The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century.