片 (piàn): meaning and stroke order
片 (piàn) means thin piece, flake, a slice, film, TV play, to slice, to carve thin, partial, incomplete.
片
- Simplified
- 片
- Traditional
- 片 (same form)
- Pinyin
- piàn · piān
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Stroke order of 片
片
- piān disk; sheet
- piàn thin piece; flake
- 4 strokes
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Meaning of 片
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piàn
- thin piece
- flake
- a slice
- film
- TV play
- to slice
- to carve thin
- partial
- incomplete
- one-sided
- classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water
- classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc
- used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc
- Kangxi radical 91
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piān
- disk
- sheet
Radical and structure
- 片
- Radical 片 (Kangxi radical 91) · 4 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 片
- 大片 dà piàn wide expanse; large area
- 照片 zhào piàn photograph; picture
- 碎片 suì piàn chip; fragment; splinter; tatter
- 夫妻肺片 fū qī fèi piàn popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal
- 片面 piàn miàn unilateral; one-sided
片 in our stories
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四千多年前，黄河发了一场大洪水，房屋被冲走，田地变成了一片汪洋。
sìqiān duō nián qián Huáng Hé fā le yì cháng dà hóngshuǐ fángwū bèi chōng zǒu tiándì biànchéng le yí piàn wāngyáng
More than four thousand years ago the Yellow River flooded: houses were swept away and the fields became a vast sheet of water.
From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
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柳树的树洞里藏着一片衣襟，上面写着血字：“割肉奉君尽丹心，但愿主公常清明。”
liǔshù de shùdòng lǐ cáng zhe yí piàn yījīn shàngmiàn xiě zhe xuèzì gē ròu fèng jūn jìn dānxīn dànyuàn zhǔgōng cháng qīngmíng
In a hollow of the willow was a strip of his robe, written in blood: "I cut my flesh to serve my lord with a loyal heart; I only wish my lord to stay ever clear and just."
From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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她们在一片桑树林里发现了许多白色的小果子，摘回来一尝，却又硬又没有味道。
tāmen zài yí piàn sāngshùlín lǐ fāxiàn le xǔduō báisè de xiǎo guǒzi zhāi huílai yì cháng què yòu yìng yòu méiyǒu wèidao
In a mulberry grove they found many small white "fruits", but when they picked them and tasted them, they were hard and tasteless.
From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 片
- Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
- Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).