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piān
HSK 2freq #560

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piān
  1. 1.disk
  2. 2.sheet
piàn
  1. 1.thin piece
  2. 2.flake
  3. 3.a slice
  4. 4.film
  5. 5.TV play
  6. 6.to slice
  7. 7.to carve thin
  8. 8.partial
  9. 9.incomplete
  10. 10.one-sided
  11. 11.classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water
  12. 12.classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc
  13. 13.used with numeral 一[yī]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc
  14. 14.Kangxi radical 91

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  1. 1.thin piece; flake; slice
  2. 2.film; TV play; photograph; record
  3. 3.film (form of mass media); movie (Classifier: 部 m; 套 c)
  4. 4.video (Classifier: 條/条 c)
  5. 5.tablet
  6. 6.diaper; nappy (Classifier: 條/条 c)
  7. 7.part of a place; portion on the earth; area
  8. 8.subgroup; subdivision of a language
  9. 9.to slice; to carve thin
  10. 10.to fight
  11. 11.to throw something along its thin side
  12. 12.to squeeze into a gap
  13. 13.bribe
  14. 14.partial; incomplete; one-sided
  15. 15.Classifier for flat objects such as leaves, pieces of paper, slices, etc.
  16. 16.Classifier for small nonspherical medicinal objects such as pills, tablets.
  17. 17.Classifier for tracts of land and areas of water.
  18. 18.Classifier for CDs, movies and DVDs.
  19. 19.Classifier for scenarios, scenes, feelings, atmospheres, sounds, clouds.
  20. 20.Classifier for doors and windows.

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Etymology

Mirror image of 爿 (OC *braːn, “piece”), which is the pictogram of a bed. Shuowen: half of 木 (“wood; tree”) to denote “to pare; to slice”; but this interpretation is not based on oracle bones and bronzes.

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