篇

篇 piān in a sentence

Chapter (measure word for a piece of writing)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 27 sentences

篇 (piān) means Chapter (measure word for a piece of writing). Below are 24 of the 27 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

这 篇 文章有点儿长。

Zhè piān wénzhāng yǒudiǎnr cháng.

This article is a bit long.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 篇

我昨天写了一 篇 文章。

Wǒ zuótiān xiě le yì piān wénzhāng.

I wrote an article yesterday.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 篇

这 篇 论文发表了。

Zhè piān lùnwén fābiǎo le.

This paper has been published.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 论文

这 篇 文章写得很好。

Zhè piān wénzhāng xiě de hěn hǎo.

This article is very well written.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 文章

他写了一 篇 书评论。

Tā xiě le yì piān shū pínglùn.

He wrote a review of the book.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 评论

这 篇 文章有几个错误。

Zhè piān wénzhāng yǒu jǐ ge cuòwù.

There are several mistakes in this article.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 错误

请评价一下这 篇 文章。

Qǐng píngjià yíxià zhè piān wénzhāng.

Please give your assessment of this article.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 评价

这 篇 文章欠一点说明。

Zhè piān wénzhāng qiàn yìdiǎn shuōmíng.

This article lacks a little explanation.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 欠

请修改一下这 篇 文章。

Qǐng xiūgǎi yíxià zhè piān wénzhāng.

Please revise this article.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 修改

这 篇 文章的结构很清楚。

Zhè piān wénzhāng de jiégòu hěn qīngchu.

The structure of this article is very clear.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 结构

老师让我们写一 篇 作文。

Lǎoshī ràng wǒmen xiě yì piān zuò wén.

The teacher asked us to write an essay.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 作文

写文章最忌讳空话连 篇 。

Xiě wénzhāng zuì jìhuì kōnghuà liánpiān.

The worst thing in writing is page after page of empty words.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 忌讳

这 篇 文章论证得很充分。

Zhè piān wénzhāng lùnzhèng de hěn chōngfèn.

This article argues its case very fully.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 论证

这 篇 散文写得非常优美。

Zhè piān sǎnwén xiě de fēicháng yōuměi.

This essay is written most beautifully.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 散文

这 篇 作品的体裁是散文。

Zhè piān zuòpǐn de tǐcái shì sǎnwén.

The genre of this piece is the essay.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 体裁

这 篇 文章讽刺了这种现象。

Zhè piān wénzhāng fěngcì le zhè zhǒng xiànxiàng.

This article satirises this phenomenon.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 讽刺

这 篇 文章突出了一个重点。

Zhè piān wénzhāng tūchū le yí ge zhòngdiǎn.

This article highlights one key point.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 突出

这 篇 文章的标题很吸引人。

Zhè piān wénzhāng de biāotí hěn xīyǐn rén.

The title of this article is very eye-catching.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 标题

他在报纸上发表了一 篇 文章。

Tā zài bàozhǐ shàng fābiǎo le yì piān wénzhāng.

He published an article in the newspaper.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 文章

这两 篇 文章的水平不相上下。

Zhè liǎng piān wénzhāng de shuǐpíng bù xiāng shàng xià.

These two essays are of much the same standard.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 不相上下

这 篇 报道揭露了事情的真相。

Zhè piān bàodào jiēlù le shìqing de zhēnxiàng.

This report exposed the truth of the matter.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 揭露

这 篇 报道揭开了事件的内幕。

Zhè piān bàodào jiē kāi le shìjiàn de nèimù.

This report uncovered the inside story of the affair.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 内幕

他能一字不差地背诵整 篇 课文。

Tā néng yí zì bú chà de bèisòng zhěng piān kèwén.

He can recite the whole text without missing a single word.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 背诵

这 篇 文章刊登在昨天的报纸上。

Zhè piān wénzhāng kāndēng zài zuótiān de bàozhǐ shang.

This article appeared in yesterday's newspaper.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 刊登

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篇 appears in 27 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.

Questions about 篇

How is 篇 used in a sentence?

This page shows 27 sentences using 篇 (piān, "Chapter (measure word 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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