piān in a sentence

Chapter (mw for a piece of writing)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 5 sentences

篇 (piān) means Chapter (mw for a piece of writing). Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

文章有点儿长。

Zhè piān wénzhāng yǒudiǎnr cháng.

This article is a bit long.

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我昨天写了一 文章。

Wǒ zuótiān xiě le yì piān wénzhāng.

I wrote an article yesterday.

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文章写得很好。

Zhè piān wénzhāng xiě de hěn hǎo.

This article is very well written.

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文章有几个错误。

Zhè piān wénzhāng yǒu jǐ ge cuòwù.

There are several mistakes in this article.

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他在报纸上发表了一 文章。

Tā zài bàozhǐ shàng fābiǎo le yì piān wénzhāng.

He published an article in the newspaper.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 文章

Questions about 篇

How is 篇 used in a sentence?

This page shows 5 sentences using 篇 (piān, "Chapter (mw for a piece of writing)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Why do some sentences show 篇 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 篇 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 篇 an HSK word?

Yes — 篇 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 篇?

The dictionary page for 篇 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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