HSK 5 · Function Words

片 piàn “slice” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 片 means

  1. slice
  2. flake
  3. film
  4. measure word for flat pieces
  5. thin piece
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • TV play

How to say 片

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale片piàn4th tone, falling

片 in a sentence

  1. 那片云是鱼的形状。

    Nà piàn yún shì yú de xíngzhuàng.

    That cloud is in the shape of a fish.

    Sentence #472272 from Tatoeba

  2. 你吃过生鱼片吗？

    Nǐ chīguo shēngyúpiàn ma?

    Have you ever eaten sashimi?

    Sentence #420116 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 片 also means “film” or “picture”, as in 照片 zhàopiàn “photo”

    你认识照片里的男人吗？

    Nǐ rènshi zhàopiàn lǐ de nánrén ma?

    Do you know the man in the photo?

    Sentence #437939 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 片 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 片 (piàn) drawn as one shape
片piànthin piece

片 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 片

片 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 片

Words with 片

照片zhàopiàn · picture片面piànmiàn · one-sided名片míngpiàn · (business) card动画片dònghuàpiàn · animated film片刻piànkè · a moment片断piànduàn · fragment

More words: Function Words & Grammar

难怪nánguài · (it’s) no wonder (that…)宁可nìngkě · preferably偶然ǒurán · incidentally匹pǐ · measure word for horses and bolts of cloth平方píngfāng · square (as in square foot凭píng · to rely on轻易qīngyì · easily其余qíyú · the rest

FAQs

片 (piàn) means “slice” or “flake”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it piàn: piàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 片 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 片 from the suggestions. Typing pian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
片 is an HSK 5 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.