篇

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sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A bamboo ⺮ tablet 扁; 扁 also provides the pronunciation

Components ⺮扁

piece of writing · Heisig RSH #1368

竹 bamboo + book cover

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
中篇小说	zhōng piān xiǎo shuō	novella
长篇小说	cháng piān xiǎo shuō	novel; full-length novel
空话连篇	kōng huà lián piān	long-winded empty talk
极短篇小说	jí duǎn piān xiǎo shuō	flash fiction
短篇小说	duǎn piān xiǎo shuō	short story
老三篇	lǎo sān piān	Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established
鬼话连篇	guǐ huà lián piān	to tell one lie after another (idiom); to talk nonsense; bogus story
千篇一律	qiān piān yī lǜ	thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive; once you've seen one, yo…
废话连篇	fèi huà lián piān	a bunch of nonsense; verbose and rambling
翻篇儿	fān piān r	to turn a page; (fig.) to turn over a new leaf
长篇	cháng piān	lengthy (report or speech)
开篇	kāi piān	start of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞\|弹词[tan2 ci2]
语篇	yǔ piān	discourse; text
名篇	míng piān	famous piece of writing
篇目	piān mù	table of contents
玉篇	Yù piān	Yupian, Chinese dictionary compiled by Gu Yewang 顧野王\|顾野王[Gu4 Ye3 wang2] in 6th century AD
类篇	Lèi piān	Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司馬光\|司马光[…
篇章	piān zhāng	chapter; section (of a written work); passage of writing; (fig.) chapter (in the history o…
末篇	mò piān	final installment; last phase; end
篇什	piān shí	poem