The Chinese Radical: 冊


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Meaning
writing tablets    冊

Explanation

Used in these characters:
典
JLPT HSK 3
canon, law, standard work of scholarship, ceremony
diǎn
冊
Top: variant of writing tablets 冊, below: table (or variant of: to bend 曲)
The writing tablets on the table are a standard-work/canon (for the ceremony).  
篇
JLPT HSK 4
classifier for written items, sheet or paper
piān
竹 扁 戶 冊
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.)
When bamboo is flat (like a door plate), it is used for writing texts.  
遍
JLPT HSK 4
everywhere, all over, classifier for actions: one time
biàn
辶 扁 戶 冊
Left: movement 辶, right: flat 扁 (door 戸 with writing tablet 冊 as: "door plate")
(They often hang on strings) Moveable door plates are everywhere.  
编
JLPT HSK 5
to weave, plait, organize, compose
biān
糸 扁 戶 冊
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.)
When threads are laid flat, such as doors or tablets are, it is weaving, plaiting or composing.  
偏
JLPT HSK 6
biased, one-sided, prejudiced, inclined, slant
piān
人 扁 戶 冊
Left: person 人, right: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.)
(As if they had their fixed opinion on a sign around their neck:) People who are flat like a door plate are biased and one-sided.  
扁
JLPT HSK 6
flat, plan, small boat
biǎn
戶 扁 冊
Left: sliding door 戸, right: writing tablet 冊
Doors and writing tablets are flat.  
嗣
JLPT no HSK
to inherit, succession (to a title), continuing a tradition
sì
口 冊 司
Left: mouth 口, book/volume 冊 (bundle of bamboo writing tablets), Right: civil servant, administration 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)
(For its documentation:) You need a mouth or a document (last will) and an official (notary) for an inheritance.  
匾
JLPT no HSK
a board with an inscription, a sign above a door, a tablet
biǎn
匚 扁 戶 冊
Left: partial frame 匚, inside: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat. Or: A door 戸 with a writing tablet 冊 as: "door plate")
A frame with a flat door plate is: a scripted board.  
碘
JLPT no HSK
iodine (chemistry)
diǎn
石 冊
Left: stone 石, right: standard work, ceremony 典 (The writing tablets 冊 on the table are a standard-work/canon - for the ceremony.)
The 'stone' for the ceremony is: iodine.  

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