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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)
- Kangxi radical #91, ⽚ (“slice”).
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
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simp. and trad. |
片 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 片
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| Oracle bone script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (片) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 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
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): pin3, pin3-2
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phién / phien
- Min Dong (BUC): piéng
- Min Nan (POJ): phìⁿ / phiàn
- Wu (Wiktionary): phi (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: p'ien4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: piann
- IPA (key): /pʰi̯ɛn⁵¹/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢˋㄦ
- Wade-Giles: p'ianrh4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: piall
- IPA (key): /pʰjɑɻ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢ
- Wade-Giles: p'ien1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pian
- IPA (key): /pʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢㄦ
- Wade-Giles: p'ianrh1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pial
- IPA (key): /pʰjɑɻ⁵⁵/
- Note: piān - colloquial variant used in the sense “thin piece”, especially an electronic item, such as films, photographs, discs.
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: pin3, pin3-2
- Yale: pin, pín
- Cantonese Pinyin: pin3, pin3-2
- IPA (key): /pʰiːn³³/, /pʰiːn³³⁻³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phién / phien
- Hakka Romanization System: pien` / pien
- Hagfa Pinyim: pian3 / pian4
- IPA: /pʰi̯en³¹/, /pʰi̯en⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: piéng
- IPA (key): /pʰiɛŋ²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phìⁿ / phiàn
- Tâi-lô: phìnn / phiàn
- Phofsit Daibuun: phvix, phiexn
- IPA (Xiamen): /pʰĩ²¹/, /pʰiɛn²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰĩ⁴¹/, /pʰiɛn⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰĩ²¹/, /pʰiɛn²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /pʰĩ¹¹/, /pʰiɛn¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰĩ²¹/, /pʰiɛn²¹/
- Note: phìⁿ - vernacular; phiàn - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: phi (T2)
- IPA (key): /pʰi³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 片 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /pʰian⁵¹/ |
| Harbin |
/pʰian⁵³/ 膠～ /pʰian⁴⁴/ 相～兒 |
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| Tianjin |
/pʰian²¹/ 影～ /pʰian⁵³/ 量詞 |
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| 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 |
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| Hohhot |
/pʰie⁵³/ 藥～子 /pʰie⁵⁵/ ～面 |
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| 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/ |
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| 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) | |
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| 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; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| 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
- thin piece; flake; slice
- 片子 ― piànzǐ ― flake, small piece
- film; TV play; photograph; record
- (medicine) tablet
- to slice; to carve thin
- partial; incomplete; one-sided
- 片面 ― piànmiàn ― unilateral, one-sided
- Classifier for slices.
- Classifier for flat objects such as leaves and pieces of paper.
- Classifier for small nonspherical medicinal objects such as pills, tablets.
- Classifier for tracts of land and areas of water.
- Classifier for CDs, movies and DVDs.
- (used with numeral 一) Classifier for scenarios, scenes, feelings, atmospheres, sounds, clouds.
Compounds
Derived terms from 片
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Japanese
Kanji
片
Readings
Derived terms
Etymology
Cognate with 方 (kata).
Noun
- one part of a two-way pair
- partial