片 (piān) means Piece (mw for thin things or slices). Below are 24 of the 94 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
窗外是一 片 绿色。
Chuāng wài shì yí piàn lǜsè.
Outside the window is a stretch of green.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 片
山上一 片 青色。
Shān shàng yí piàn qīng sè.
The mountain is a stretch of green.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 青
照 片 拍得很清晰。
Zhàopiàn pāi de hěn qīngxī.
The photograph came out very sharp.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 清晰
天空是一 片 蔚蓝。
Tiānkōng shì yí piàn wèilán.
The sky is a stretch of azure.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 蔚蓝
这张照 片 有点模糊。
Zhè zhāng zhàopiàn yǒudiǎn móhu.
This photo is a bit blurry.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 模糊
这种看法太 片 面了。
Zhè zhǒng kànfǎ tài piànmiàn le.
This view is too one-sided.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 片面
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From the graded readers
我拿着照 片 去问她。
wǒ názhe zhàopiàn qù wèn tā.
I took the photo to ask her about it.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
照 片 已经发黄了，边上还有一点破。
zhàopiàn yǐjīng fā huáng le / liǎo / liào, biān shàng háiyǒu yīdiǎn pò.
It had yellowed, and the edge was slightly torn.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
那天晚上，她一直把照 片 放在手边。
nà / nèi tiān wǎnshang, tā yìzhí bǎ zhàopiàn fàng zài shǒu biān.
That evening she kept the photograph beside her.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
我还买了几张照 片 ，把它们放在了墙上。
wǒ hái / huán mǎile jǐ / jī zhāng zhàopiàn, bǎ tāmen fàng zài le / liǎo / liào qiáng shàng.
I also bought a few photos and put them on the wall.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room
照 片 上的大衣是蓝色的，看起来很暖和。
zhàopiàn shàng de / dì dà yī / yì shì lánsè de / dì, kànqǐlái hěn nuǎnhuo.
The coat in the photo was blue and looked warm.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Shopping Online
我照了很多照 片 ，可是照 片 没有真的好看。
wǒ zhào le / liǎo / liào hěnduō zhàopiàn, kěshì zhàopiàn méiyǒu zhēnde hǎokàn.
I took a lot of photos, but none of them was as good as the real thing.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Trip With Friends
照 片 上有四个年轻人，站在一棵大树下面。
zhàopiàn shàng yǒu sì gè niánqīngrén, zhàn zài yī kē dàshù xiàmian.
There were four young people in it, standing under a big tree.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
我又着急又难过，因为里面有很多重要的照 片 。
wǒ yòu zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó jí yòu nán'guò, yīnwèi lǐmiàn yǒu hěnduō zhòngyào de / dì zhàopiàn.
I was anxious and upset, because there were a lot of important photos on it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
最后我把它打开了，里面全是我上大学时的照 片 和信。
zuìhòu wǒ bǎ tā dǎkāile, lǐmiàn quán shì wǒ shàng dàxué shí de / dì zhàopiàn hé xìn.
In the end I opened it: inside were all my photographs and letters from university.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
我走上台，看着下面那么多张脸，脑子忽然一 片 空白。
wǒ zǒushang tái, kànzhe xiàmian nàme duō zhāng liǎn, nǎozi hūrán yīpiàn kòngbái.
I walked on stage, looked at all those faces, and my mind went blank.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
From the travel phrasebook
收到的和图 片 不一样。
Shōudào de hé túpiàn bù yíyàng.
What arrived isn't what the photo showed.
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
片 appears in 94 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 片
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 片
How is 片 used in a sentence?
This page shows 94 sentences using 片 (piān, "Piece (mw for thin things or slices)"), 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 片 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 片 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 片 an HSK word?
Yes — 片 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 片?
The dictionary page for 片 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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