篇 - piān - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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HSK 4 - Medium
15 strokes
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篇

piān

Definition

classifier (for written items: chapter, article...)
measure word

Character Decomposition

Related words (18)

篇幅

piān fu

length (of a piece of writing); space occupied on a printed page

table of contents

writing; sections and chapters

篇韻

piān yùn

abbr. for Yupian 玉篇 and Guangyun 廣韻

名篇

míng piān

famous piece of writing

開篇

kāi piān

start of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞

末篇

mò piān

final installment; last phase; end

續篇

xù piān

sequel; continuation (of a story)

詩篇

shī piān

a poem; a composition in verse; (fig.) epic (compared with historical epic); the biblical Book of Psalms

discourse; text

lengthy (report or speech)

翻篇兒

fān piān r

to turn a page; (fig.) to turn over a new leaf

novella

a bunch of nonsense; verbose and rambling

short story

long-winded empty talk

長篇小說

cháng piān xiǎo shuō

novel

極短篇小說

jí duǎn piān xiǎo shuō

flash fiction

Idioms (5)

千篇一律

qiān piān yī lǜ

thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive; once you've seen one, you've seen them all

洋洋大篇

yáng yáng dà piān

(lit.) an ocean of writing; an impressive literary work (idiom)

連篇累牘

lián piān lěi dú

(of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom); verbose

長篇累牘

cháng piān lěi dú

(of a text) very lengthy (idiom)

鬼話連篇

guǐ huà lián piān

to tell one lie after another (idiom); to talk nonsense; bogus story

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