piān
páng

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Meaning of 偏旁

偏旁 means a recurring component or part of a Chinese character. Pronounced piān páng.

  • a recurring component or part of a Chinese character

Definitions & Examples

Xué
hàn
shí
 
liǎo
jiě
piān
páng
hěn
yǒu
bāng
zhù
 

When learning Chinese characters, understanding components is very helpful.

 
 
shì
 
lín
 
 
 
sēn
 
 
 
shù
 
zhè
xiē
de
gòng
tóng
piān
páng
 

“木” (wood) is the common component in characters like “林” (forest), “森” (dense forest), and “树” (tree).

Lǎo
shī
ràng
men
zhǎo
chū
zhè
ge
de
piān
páng
shì
shén
me
 

The teacher asked us to identify the component of this character.

Hěn
duō
xíng
shēng
shì
yóu
biǎo
de
piān
páng
biǎo
yīn
de
piān
páng
chéng
de
 

Many phono-semantic compound characters are formed by a meaning-indicating component and a sound-indicating component.

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