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匾

biǎn

Character

What 匾 means

1. horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall
2. shallow round woven bamboo basket

Words starting with 匾

• 匾额biǎn éa horizontal inscribed board

Words containing 匾

• 牌匾pái biǎnboard (attached to a wall)
• 横匾héng biǎnhorizontal tablet (for an inscription)

Characters built on 扁

These share the phonetic component 扁 (biǎn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 编biānto weave; to plait; to organize
• 遍biàneverywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time
• 偏piānto lean; to slant; oblique
• 篇piānsheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
• 骗piànto cheat; to swindle; to deceive
• 蝙biānused in 蝙蝠
• 翩piānto fly fast
• 褊biǎnnarrow; urgent

Characters that look like 匾

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 渔yúfisherman; to fish
• 菌jūngerm; bacteria; fungus
• 匿nìto hide
• 圃pǔgarden; orchard
• 莴wōused in 莴苣; used in 莴笋
• 痍yíbruise; sores

Sounds the same

Read biǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 扁flat; (colloquial) to beat (sb) up; old variant of 匾
• 贬to diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate
• 褊narrow; urgent
• 窆to put a coffin in the grave
• 碥dangerous rocks jutting out over rapids
• 稨see 稨豆
• 藊see 藊豆
• 萹see 萹豆

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read biǎn correctly.
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