Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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篇 piān piece of paper
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#771
Chapter-39 HSK-A
15 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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P'ien is composed of 竹 chu bamboo as radical, with 扁 pien flat as phonetic. It means the flat bamboo tablet on which books were written with a stylus before the invention of the hair brush, and is now used either of a section or of a single leaf of a book. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
篇
piān
sheet/piece of writing/bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)/classifier for written items: chapter, article
Phrases ending with the given character
史shǐ
籀zhòu
篇piān
Shizhoupian, early school primer in great seal script 大篆[da4 zhuan4], attributed to King Xuan of Zhou 周宣王[Zhou1 Xuan1 wang2] but probably dating from c. 500 BC
老lǎo
三sān
篇piān
Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established