piān

fly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
羽 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

feather

扁 sound component

  Sound component

biǎnpiān

  

flat

Evolution

翩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
翩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

piān

fly, flutter; to fly fast

Most common words with 翩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

翩翩起舞

(to start) dancing lightly and gracefully

翩翩

elegant

浮想联翩

to let one's imagination roam

to fly fast

翩跹

spry and lively (of dancing and movements)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰe[n]

phjien

piān

fly, flutter about


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2814% of movies

2982nd most common character in movies

3234th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7FE9

Shuowen

“翩,疾飛也。从羽,扁聲。”


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