篇 — Chinese character
篇
piān
chapter, section; article, essay
- Pinyin
- piān
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 扁
- Formation
- ideographic — A bamboo ⺮ tablet 扁; 扁 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 篇 as a kanji
Common words with 篇
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 长篇 (長篇) | cháng piān | lengthy (report or speech) |
| 篇幅 | piān fu | length (of a piece of writing); space occupied on a printed page |
| 短篇小说 (短篇小說) | duǎn piān xiǎo shuō | short story |
| 篇章 | piān zhāng | chapter; section (of a written work); passage of writing; (fig.) chapter (in the history of sth) |
| 长篇小说 (長篇小說) | cháng piān xiǎo shuō | novel; full-length novel |
| 诗篇 (詩篇) | shī piān | a poem; a composition in verse |
| 开篇 (開篇) | kāi piān | start of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tanci style 弹词 (tán cí) |
| 千篇一律 | qiān piān yī lǜ | thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive; once you've seen one, you've seen them all |
| 中篇小说 (中篇小說) | zhōng piān xiǎo shuō | novella |
| 续篇 (續篇) | xù piān | sequel; continuation (of a story) |
| 名篇 | míng piān | famous piece of writing |
| 篇目 | piān mù | table of contents |
English words written with 篇
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.