片
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thin piece; flake; a slice; film; TV play; to slice; to carve thin; partial; incomplete; one-sided; classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water; classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc; used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc; Kangxi radical 91
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 片 itself
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 片
- Common rank
- #308
- Unicode
- U+7247
Sound it out + + = · + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 片 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
Half of a tree trunk; compare 爿
How to remember it
slice · Heisig RSH #986
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 片
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打成一片 | (idiom) to become as one (with a particular group of people); to mix well; to bond | |
| 岛国动作片 | euphemism for Japanese porn movie | |
| 动作片 | action movie; CL:部[bu4] | |
| 片子 | film; movie; film reel; phonograph record; X-ray image | |
| 片子 | thin flake; small piece | |
| 大片 | wide expanse; large area; vast stretch; extending widely; blockbuster movie | |
| 制片人 | film producer | |
| 片头 | leader (blank section at the beginning or end of a reel of film) | |
| 片头 | (cinema, TV) title sequence; opening credits; intro | |
| 片中 | in the movie | |
| 生鱼片 | sashimi | |
| 片儿 | sheet; thin film | |
| 卡片机 | compact digital camera; point-and-shoot camera | |
| 上片 | (of a movie) to start screening (Tw) | |
| 片花 | trailer (for a movie) | |
| 单片机 | microcontroller; one-chip computer | |
| 片长 | length (duration) of a film | |
| 片面 | unilateral; one-sided | |
| 长片 | feature-length film | |
| 下片 | to stop screening a movie; to end the run of a movie |