HSK 4 · Function Words

篇 piān “measure word for articles and essays” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 篇 means

  1. measure word for articles and essays
  2. piece of writing
  3. sheet
  4. bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
  5. classifier for written items: chapter, article

How to say 篇

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale篇piān1st tone, high and level

篇 in a sentence

  1. 我想写篇文章。

    Wǒ xiǎng xiě piān wénzhāng.

    I want to write an article.

    Sentence #6094908 from Tatoeba

  2. 她看完这篇短文后才会去睡觉。

    Tā kàn wán zhè piān duǎnwén hòu cái huì qù shuìjiào.

    She won’t go to bed until she’s finished reading this short essay.

    Sentence #2555289 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你有没有看过这篇文章？

    Nǐ yǒu méiyǒu kànguo zhè piān wénzhāng?

    Have you read this article?

    Sentence #469120 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 篇 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 篇 (piān) with each of its parts in a different colour
篇piānsheet
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhú
  • 扁flat · biǎn

How to write 篇

篇 15 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

篇 (piān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 篇 (piān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 篇

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俩liǎ · two (colloquial equivalent of 两个)另外lìngwài · additional难道nándào · don’t tell me …内nèi · inside其次qícì · next其中qízhōng · among千万qiānwàn · be sure to全部quánbù · whole

FAQs

篇 (piān) means “measure word for articles and essays” or “piece of writing”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it piān: piān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 篇 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 篇 from the suggestions. Typing pian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
篇 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.