半端ない (hanpa nai)

What it means

1. 1.

   Off the scale; no half measures about it. An intensifier for quantity, quality or intensity, positive or negative.

Examples with translations

• 今日の暑さ半端ないって。

  The heat today is something else.

• あの選手の実力は半端ない。

  That player's ability is on another level.

Where it comes from

Literally 'not half-done'. The phrase 半端ないって became a national catchphrase during the 2018 World Cup, from a schoolboy's tearful praise of the footballer Ōsako Yūya in an old clip that resurfaced.

Other forms

Romanised as:

hanpa nai

Spellings and variants:

ハンパない, 半端ねえ