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CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7247
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[U+7248]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

片 (radical 91, 片+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 中中一中 (LLML) or 中中一弓 (LLMN), four-corner 22027)

  1. Kangxi radical #91, ⽚.

References

  • KangXi: page 692, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19813
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1105, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2014, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7247

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 片

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 片
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (片) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
爿 *braːn, *zaŋ
片 *pʰeːns
沜 *pʰaːns

Mirror image of 爿 (OC *braːn, “piece”).

Shuowen: Half of 木 (“wood; tree”) to denote “to pare; to slice”.

Pronunciation

Note: piān - colloquial variant used in the sense “thin piece”, especially an electronic item, such as films, photographs, discs.
Note:
  • phìⁿ - vernacular;
  • phiàn - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 片
Mandarin Beijing /pʰian⁵¹/
Harbin /pʰian⁵³/ 膠～
/pʰian⁴⁴/ 相～兒
Tianjin /pʰian²¹/ 影～
/pʰian⁵³/ 量詞
Jinan /pʰiã²¹/
Qingdao /pʰiã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰian³¹²/
Xi'an /pʰiã⁵³/
Xining /pʰiã⁵³/
Yinchuan /pʰian⁵³/
Lanzhou /pʰiɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /pʰian²¹³/
Wuhan /pʰiɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /pʰian¹³/
Guiyang /pʰian²¹³/
Kunming /pʰiɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /pʰien⁴⁴/
Hefei /pʰiĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰie⁵³/ 字～～
/pʰie⁴⁵/ 一～
Pingyao /pʰie̞⁵³/ 名片
/pʰie̞³⁵/ 女陰
Hohhot /pʰie⁵³/ 藥～子
/pʰie⁵⁵/ ～面
Wu Shanghai /pʰi³⁵/
Suzhou /pʰiɪ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /pʰiẽ̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /pʰi⁴²/
Hui Shexian /pʰe³²⁴/
Tunxi /pʰiɛ⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /pʰiẽ⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /pʰiẽ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /pʰiɛn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /pʰien³¹/
Taoyuan /pʰien³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰin³³/
Nanning /pʰin³³/
Hong Kong /pʰin³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pʰian²¹/
/pʰĩ²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pʰiɛŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pʰiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰiaŋ²¹³/
/pʰĩ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fin³⁵/
/fi³⁵/
Rime
Character 片
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 普麵切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰenH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰenH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰɛnH/
Li
Rong		 /pʰenH/
Wang
Li		 /pʰienH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰienH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 piàn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 片
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 piàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰˤe[n]-s/
English half; partial

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 片
Reading # 1/1
No. 9740
Phonetic
component		 片
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 片
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰeːns/

Definitions

片

  1. thin piece; flake; slice
    • 片子  ―  piànzi  ―  flake, small piece
  2. film; TV play; photograph; record
    • 影片  ―  yǐngpiàn  ―  film, movie
    • 片子  ―  piānzi  ―  film, movie, film reel
  3. (medicine) tablet
  4. to slice; to carve thin
  5. partial; incomplete; one-sided
    • 片面  ―  piànmiàn  ―  unilateral, one-sided
  6. Classifier for slices.
    • 一片面包  ―  yī piàn miànbāo  ―  a slice of bread
  7. Classifier for flat objects such as leaves and pieces of paper.
  8. Classifier for small nonspherical medicinal objects such as pills, tablets.
  9. Classifier for tracts of land and areas of water.
  10. Classifier for CDs, movies and DVDs.
  11. (used with numeral 一) Classifier for scenarios, scenes, feelings, atmospheres, sounds, clouds.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

片

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Derived terms

Etymology

Cognate with 方 (kata).

Noun

片 (hiragana かた, rōmaji kata)

  1. one part of a two-way pair
  2. partial

Korean

Hanja

片 • (pyeon) (hangeul 편, revised pyeon, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏn, Yale phyen)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

片 (phiến, phiện)

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