篇 (piān)

measure word for articles, essays, or chapters

How 篇 is written

Strokes
15
Radical
⺮ — bamboo
Traditional
篇
Simplified
篇 (unchanged)

Components

  • ⺮ bamboo
  • 户 door/house
  • 冂 upside down box
  • 艹 grass

Common words using 篇

千篇一律 qiānpiānyīlǜ
thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive; once you've seen one, you've seen them all
名篇 míngpiān
famous piece of writing
篇幅 piānfu
(take up or devote) space; ink; time (in a printed page or news story)
篇目 piānmù
table of contents
篇章 piānzhāng
writing; sections and chapters
續篇 xùpiān
sequel; continuation (of a story)
詩篇 shīpiān
a poem; a composition in verse; fig. epic (compared with historical epic)
長篇 chángpiān
lengthy (report or speech)
開篇 kāipiān
start of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tangci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2]

篇 in a sentence

這篇文章寫得很好,你應該讀一讀。

Zhè piān wénzhāng xiě de hěn hǎo, nǐ yīnggāi dú yī dú.

“This article is written very well; you should read it.”

How common is 篇?

篇 is the 1,006th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.3% of all running text.

Characters that appear with 篇

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