Memory phrase for the Kanji: 篇


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Meaning

classifier for written items, sheet or paper

Pronunciation

piān

Explanation

Top: bamboo , bottom: flat (Sliding oors 戸 and writing tablets are flat.)

Mnemonic

When bamboo is flat (like a door plate), it is used for writing texts.

Radicals

bamboo
flat, planunderstood as a door---plate-
doorImage of a sliding door in an upper guidance rail.
writing tablets
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Vocabulary

 篇幅  piān fu  (take up or devote) space; ink; time (in a printed page or news story); length (of a piece of writing)
 短篇小说  duǎn piān xiǎo shuō  narrative; short story
 诗篇  shī piān  a poem; a composition in verse; fig. epic (compared with historical epic); the biblical Book of Psalms
 诗篇  shī piān  


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