In Japan, Dinner Gets 50% Cheaper Right Before Closing. You Just Have to Read Two Kanji.
To say half price in Japanese, say 半額 (hangaku).
It's eight at night and a supermarket clerk is walking the bento aisle slapping stickers on everything.
半額
hangaku
half price
In this video
- これ、半額です。 kore, hangaku desu. This one is half price.
- これも半額ですか？ kore mo hangaku desu ka? Is this one half price too?
Kanji in this phrase
- 半額
- はんがく
Why this phrase
The evening markdown ritual at Japanese supermarkets and konbini. Percentage-off stickers come first, then the best one lands near closing: 半額, half price. Same sushi, same katsu, same day, half the money.
Up next
Survival
▶
Your Backpack Just Hit the Beam. That Sign Is Not the Temple's Name.
Zujō chūi · Watch your head.
Survival
▶
That Little Card Owns the Table
yoyaku-seki · reserved table
Survival
▶
You Let the Red Sign Drive Past. That Taxi Was Empty.
Kūsha · vacant
Survival
▶
You Ate It Cold
Kanetsu shite kudasai · Please heat this before you eat it.
More phrases like this
- That Red Button Stops the Train · hijō teishi
- Housekeeping Walked In · Okosanaide kudasai
- Your Disney Costume Doesn't Work Today · zenshin kasō
- Your Shoes Stink All the Way Home. · ginnan no mi o fumanaide kudasai
- Those Two Kanji Were the Fee. · haikanryō
- Google Walked You Into a Loading Dock. That Sign Is Not a Suggestion. · kankeisha igai tachiiri kinshi
- The Photo Spot Has a 40-Minute Line and One Word on the Sign. · Kōyō ga migoro desu
- Stop Pushing. That Train Door Is Waiting on You. · hanjidō
- The Platform Does Not Say Your Stop. It Says a City Past It. That Is Your Train. · hōmen
- You Walked Past the Bathroom Six Times. The Sign Said Makeup Room. · keshōshitsu
- Every Locker at Tokyo Station Is Shut. Two Kanji Mean You're Walking. · manpai
- Silver Week Starts Saturday. Those Empty Shinkansen Seats Will Still Leave Without You. · zensha shitei-seki
Get the free phrasebook
15 essential phrases for your trip — romaji included, zero studying.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.