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漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons

片: one-sided, leaf

Also: sheet, right-side kata radical (no. 91)

JLPT N24 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
4 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ヘンhen · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 破片はへんfragment, splinter, piece
  • 断片だんぺんfragment, shred

かた-kata- · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 片手かたてone hand
  • 片目かためone eye
  • 片側かたがわone side
  • 片面かためんone side
  • 片道かたみちone-way
  • 片言かたことbaby talk, broken speech
  • 片仮名かたかなkatakana
  • 片思いかたおもいunrequited love
  • 片寄るかたよるlean, incline, be biased
  • 片付けるかたづけるtidy up

Also read かた, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Mirror image of 爿 (“piece”), which is the pictogram of a bed.

Source: Wiktionary, 片 (rev. 93182973), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“One side of the story! This radical represents the concept of being incomplete, partial, or a single part of a balanced pair.”
More in the 片 split wood story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Also read ヘン

7 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · piàn

Same form: 片 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
片 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
片 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin piàn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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