piàn, piān
slice
Pictograph of a slice of a tree, taken from the right half of 木 (tree).
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
piàn
slice, splinter, strip; rad. 91; 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[yī]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc; Kangxi radical 91
piān
disk; sheet
Component uses
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