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翩

piān

Character

What 翩 means

1. to fly fast

Example sentences

• 枫树美丽的红叶从枝头飘落，在风中翩翩起舞。
  The beautiful red leaves of the maple become detached from the branches and are dancing in the wind.

Words starting with 翩

• 翩翩piān piānelegant; graceful; smart
• 翩翩起舞piān piān qǐ wǔ(to start) dancing lightly and gracefully
• 翩然而至piān rán ér zhìcome trippingly
• 翩跹piān xiānspry and lively (of dancing and movements)

Words containing 翩

• 浮想联翩fú xiǎng lián piānto let one's imagination roam
• 联翩lián piān(literary) to come in quick succession; wave after wave
• 连翩lián piānvariant of 联翩

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
• 匾biǎnhorizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall…
• 褊biǎnnarrow; urgent

Characters that look like 翩

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

• 磁címagnetic; magnetism; porcelain
• 糊hūto smear; to daub; to cover (a surface with sth sticky or paste-like); Taiwan pr. hú
• 碱jiǎn(chemistry) base; alkali; soda
• 撇piēto cast away; to fling aside
• 翱áosee 翱翔
• 赭zhěocher

Sounds the same

Read piān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 篇sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
• 偏to lean; to slant; oblique
• 扁(bound form) small
• 片disk; sheet
• 囨expression of contempt equivalent to 呸
• 犏used in 犏牛