扁 (biǎn)
flat
How 扁 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 户 — door/house
- Traditional
- 扁
- Simplified
- 扁 (unchanged)
Components
- 户 door/house
- 冂 upside down box
- 艹 grass
扁 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- piān
- surname Pian
- biǎn
- flat; (old form of character 匾, horizontal tablet with inscription)
Common words using 扁
- 壓扁 yābiǎn
- squash; squeeze
- 扁擔 biǎndan
- carrying pole; shoulder pole; CL:根[gen1]
- 扁桃體 biǎntáotǐ
- tonsil
- 扁豆 biǎndòu
- hyacinth bean; haricot
- 欠扁 qiànbiǎn
- annoying; infuriating; deserving of a good spanking
- 海扁 hǎibiǎn
- (slang) to beat sb up
- 看扁 kànbiǎn
- to have a low opinion of
- 扁圓 biǎnyuán
- oblate
- 扁平 biǎnpíng
- flat; planar
- 扁桃 biǎntáo
- almond tree; almond; flat peach
- 扁桃腺 biǎntáoxiàn
- tonsil
- 扁桃體炎 biǎntáotǐyán
- tonsillitis
扁 in a sentence
我的錢包扁扁的，沒錢了。
Wǒ de qiánbāo biǎnbiǎn de, méi qián le.
“My wallet is flat; I'm out of money.”
How common is 扁?
扁 is the 1,735th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96% of all running text.
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