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篇

piān

HSK 4 Character

What 篇 means

1. sheet
2. piece of writing
3. bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
4. classifier for written items: chapter, article

Example sentences

• 我在读短篇小说
  Wǒ zài dú duǎnpiānxiǎoshuō
  I am reading short stories.
• 我想写篇文章。
  I want to write an article.
• 这篇文章很好。
  This article is very good.
• 那篇报导不可靠。
  The report is not to be depended upon.
• 汤姆在读短篇小说。
  Tāngmǔ zài dú duǎnpiānxiǎoshuō.
  Tom is reading a short story.
• 这篇文章没有价值。
  This article is of no value.

Words starting with 篇

• 篇幅piān fulength (of a piece of writing); space occupied on a printed page
• 篇章piān zhāngchapter; section (of a written work); passage of writing…
• 篇目piān mùtable of contents
• 篇什piān shípoem
• 篇韵piān yùnabbr. for Yupian 玉篇

Words containing 篇

• 长篇cháng piānlengthy (report or speech)
• 长篇小说cháng piān xiǎo shuōnovel; full-length novel
• 短篇小说duǎn piān xiǎo shuōshort story
• 诗篇shī piāna poem; a composition in verse; fig. epic (compared with historical epic)
• 千篇一律qiān piān yī lǜthousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive…
• 开篇kāi piānstart of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tanci style 弹词
• 中篇小说zhōng piān xiǎo shuōnovella
• 名篇míng piānfamous piece of writing
• 续篇xù piānsequel; continuation (of a story)
• 语篇yǔ piāndiscourse; text
• 类篇Lèi piānLeipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司马光
• 翻篇儿fān piān rto turn a page; (fig.) to turn over a new leaf
• 末篇mò piānfinal installment; last phase; end
• 废话连篇fèi huà lián piāna bunch of nonsense; verbose and rambling
• 空话连篇kōng huà lián piānlong-winded empty talk
• 鬼话连篇guǐ huà lián piānto tell one lie after another (idiom); to talk nonsense; bogus story
• 极短篇小说jí duǎn piān xiǎo shuōflash fiction
• 玉篇Yù piānYupian, Chinese dictionary compiled by Gu Yewang 顾野王
• 连篇累牍lián piān lěi dú(of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom); verbose
• 长篇累牍cháng piān lěi dú(of a text) very lengthy (idiom)
• 史籀篇Shǐ zhòu piānShizhoupian, early school primer in great seal script 大篆
• 老三篇lǎo sān piānLao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established

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
• 骗piànto cheat; to swindle; to deceive
• 蝙biānused in 蝙蝠
• 翩piānto fly fast
• 匾biǎnhorizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall…
• 褊biǎnnarrow; urgent

Characters that look like 篇

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

• 蕉jiāobanana
• 罂yīngearthen jar with small mouth
• 篡cuànto seize; to usurp
• 篝gōubamboo frame for drying clothes; bamboo cage
• 箴zhēnto warn; to admonish; variant of 针
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes

Sounds the same

Read piān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 偏to lean; to slant; oblique
• 扁(bound form) small
• 片disk; sheet
• 翩to fly fast
• 囨expression of contempt equivalent to 呸
• 犏used in 犏牛