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sliced wood 片
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In characters is this radical always at the left.
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Used in these characters:
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片
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| slice, sheet, thin piece, disc
piān, piàn
片
丬
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When splitting a tree, these fragments are created: 丬=爿 and 片
Pictograph of a split tree, which means: "slice".
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牌
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| signboard, plate, tablet, playing cards
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Left: part/fragment 片 (tree, halved vertically), right: vulgar/low 卑 (A such untidy field 田 is tenfold 十 vulgar.)
A simple fragment is vulgar, but still can be used as signboard.
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版
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| printed page, publication, version, block of printing
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Left: part/fragment 片 (tree, halved vertically, here: relief of a printing plate), right: against, opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing)
The printing block is (pushed) "against" for printing a page of the publication.
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鼎
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JLPT no HSK |
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| pot, ancient cooking cauldron on legs
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Picture or a cooking pot 目 with legs. Please note that the lower parts are practically the fragments 爿 and 片 of a vertically split tree. (爿 is often simplified to: 丬, with the meaning: "bed").
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