Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 篇

篇

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Meaning

 classifier for written items, sheet or paper

Pronunciation

 piān

Explanation

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

Mnemonic

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

Radicals

竹 bamboo
扁 flat, plan(understood as a door-戶--plate-冊)
戶 door(Image of a sliding door 尸 in an upper guidance rail.)
冊 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

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