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Mandarin · pinyin piān#

disk
sheet

Mandarin · pinyin piàn#

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

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片: piàn · slice, splinter, strip; rad. 91

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1 · pian1

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pin2 · pin3

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thin piece; flake; slice
film; TV play; photograph; record
film; TV play; photograph; record — (specifically) film (form of mass media); movie (Classifier: 部 m; 套 c)
film; TV play; photograph; record — (by extension, Cantonese) video (Classifier: 條／条 c)
(medicine) tablet
(dialectal) diaper; nappy (Classifier: 條／条 c)
part of a place; portion on the earth; area
(linguistics) subgroup; subdivision of a language
to slice; to carve thin
(Cantonese) to fight
(Cantonese) to throw something along its thin side
(Cantonese, of a vehicle) to squeeze into a gap
(Cantonese) bribe
partial; incomplete; one-sided
Classifier for flat objects such as leaves, pieces of paper, slices, etc.
Classifier for small nonspherical medicinal objects such as pills, tablets.
Classifier for tracts of land and areas of water.
Classifier for CDs, movies and DVDs.
(used with numeral 一) Classifier for scenarios, scenes, feelings, atmospheres, sounds, clouds.
(Teochew) Classifier for doors and windows.
(Hakka, Teochew) side

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