Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- piān
English
- chapter, section, essay, article
- sheet
- piece of writing
- bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
- classifier for written items: chapter, article
- piece of writing; quantifier for articles
- length of a piece of writing
粵語
- （寫作）作品；計算文章或詩作嘅單位
- 篇幅；文字嘅長短
As a component in
Words containing 篇
- 短篇dyun2 pin1
a short article; short stories
- 長篇coeng4 pin1
lengthy (report or speech)
- 篇幅pin1 fuk1
length (of a piece of writing)
- 篇章pin1 zoeng1
chapter; section (of a written work); passage of writing; (fig.) chapter (in the history of sth)
- 詩篇si1 pin1
a poem
- 續篇zuk6 pin1
sequel
- 篇目pin1 muk6
table of contents
- 末篇mut6 pin1
final installment
- 長篇大論coeng4 pin1 daai6 leon6
long and useless speech or conversation (idiom)
- 千篇一律cin1 pin1 jat1 leot6
thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive
- 篇韻pin1 wan5
abbr. for Yupian 玉篇[Yu4 pian1] and Guangyun 廣韻|广韵[Guang3 yun4]
- 名篇ming4 pin1
famous piece of writing
- 呢篇nei1 pin1
- 類篇leoi6 pin1
Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] et al in 11th century
- 語篇jyu5 pin1
discourse
- 通篇tung1 pin1
throughout the article
- 篇什pin1 sap6
poem
- 短篇小說dyun2 pin1 siu2 syut3
short story
- 開篇hoi1 pin1
start of literary work
- 長篇小說coeng4 pin1 siu2 syut3
novel; full-length novel
- 玉篇juk6 pin1
Yupian, Chinese dictionary compiled by Gu Yewang 顧野王|顾野王[Gu4 Ye3 wang2] in 6th century AD
- 鬼話連篇gwai2 waa2 lin4 pin1
to tell one lie after another (idiom)
- 中篇小說zung1 pin1 siu2 syut3
novella
- 姊妹篇zi2 mui2 pin1