片
Meanings · pin3
- (noun) 1.diaper; (of gangster activity) Battle
Meanings · pin2
- film
- TV play
- photograph
- nappy
- a bribe
- protection money, paid to an official
- to fight
- to compete
- to be rivals
Meanings · pin3
- thin piece
- flake
- a slice
- 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: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc
- to pare
- KangXi radical number 91
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 片 piān CC-CEDICT · Mandarindisk; sheet
- 片 piàn CC-CEDICT · Mandarinthin piece; flake; a slice; film; TV play; to slice; to carve thin; partial; …
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: pian4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 21 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
pin2 · pin3
Cantonese word readings for 片. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- 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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