piān
piece of writing, bamboo slip
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 扁 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
piān
chapter, section, essay, article; sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
Most common words with 篇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
sheet | ||
writing | ||
length (of a piece of writing) | ||
lengthy (report or speech) | ||
once you've seen one, you've seen them all |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰe[n] | phjien | piān | section in writing |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 14.6885% of movies
1677th most common character in movies
1008th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+7BC7 |
Shuowen | “篇，書也。一曰關西謂榜曰篇。从竹，扁聲。” |
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