篇
sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
15 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,087 U+7BC7
How 篇 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A bamboo ⺮ tablet 扁; 扁 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
piece of writing · Heisig RSH #1368
竹 bamboo + book cover
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 篇
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中篇小说 | zhōng piān xiǎo shuō | novella |
| 长篇小说 | cháng piān xiǎo shuō | novel; full-length novel |
| 空话连篇 | kōng huà lián piān | long-winded empty talk |
| 极短篇小说 | jí duǎn piān xiǎo shuō | flash fiction |
| 短篇小说 | duǎn piān xiǎo shuō | short story |
| 老三篇 | lǎo sān piān | Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established |
| 鬼话连篇 | guǐ huà lián piān | to tell one lie after another (idiom); to talk nonsense; bogus story |
| 千篇一律 | qiān piān yī lǜ | thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive; once you've seen one, yo… |
| 废话连篇 | fèi huà lián piān | a bunch of nonsense; verbose and rambling |
| 翻篇儿 | fān piān r | to turn a page; (fig.) to turn over a new leaf |
| 长篇 | cháng piān | lengthy (report or speech) |
| 开篇 | kāi piān | start of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] |
| 语篇 | yǔ piān | discourse; text |
| 名篇 | míng piān | famous piece of writing |
| 篇目 | piān mù | table of contents |
| 玉篇 | Yù piān | Yupian, Chinese dictionary compiled by Gu Yewang 顧野王|顾野王[Gu4 Ye3 wang2] in 6th century AD |
| 类篇 | Lèi piān | Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司馬光|司马光[… |
| 篇章 | piān zhāng | chapter; section (of a written work); passage of writing; (fig.) chapter (in the history o… |
| 末篇 | mò piān | final installment; last phase; end |
| 篇什 | piān shí | poem |