Ideographic: A bamboo ⺮ tablet 扁; 扁 also provides the pronunciationRadical:

meaning for piān:

  • - sheet
  • - piece of writing
  • - bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
  • - classifier for written items: chapter, articlelengthy (report or speech)writing
  • - sections and chaptersa poem
  • - a composition in verse
  • - fig. epic (compared with historical epic)
  • - the biblical Book of Psalmsnovellastart of literary work
  • - opening song of ballad in Tanci style 弹词

zhè
piān
wénzhāng文章
tài
róngyì容易
lǐjiě理解

This article is not easy to understand.


xūyào需要
xiūgǎi修改
zhè
piān
lùnwén论文

I need to revise this paper.


zhè
piān
gǎozi稿子
xiě
hěn
shēngdòng生动

This article is written very vividly.


yǐjīng已经
bèi
wánle完了
zhè
piān
wénzhāng文章

I have already memorized this article.


zhè
piān
wénzhāng文章
de
jiàzhí价值
bùkě不可
fǒurèn否认

The value of this article is undeniable.