Chinese Character Wiki

偏

piān

inclined one side

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 扁 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

扁 sound component

扁  Sound component

biǎn, piān

  

flat

Evolution

偏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
偏 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
偏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

偏  

piān

inclined one side; slanting; to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations

Most common words with 偏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

偏

to lean

偏见

prejudice

偏偏

as it happened

偏离

to deviate

偏执

prejudice

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰe[n]

phjien

piān

oblique; subordinate


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 20.4389% of movies

1492nd most common character in movies

1204th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+504F

Shuowen

“偏，頗也。从人，扁聲。”


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