老半天 Save Sign in to save words lǎobàntiān ㄌㄠˇ ㄅㄢˋ ㄊㄧㄢ a long time coll. Character by character 老(lǎo)prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity 半(bàn)half 天(tiān)day A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0