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- sheet
- piece of writing
- bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
- classifier for written items: chapter, article
- chapter; section (of a written work); passage of writing; (fig.) chapter (in the history of sth)
Trad. 篇韻
- abbr. for Yupian 玉篇[Yu4 pian1] and Guangyun 廣韻|广韵[Guang3 yun4]
- Yupian, Chinese dictionary compiled by Gu Yewang 顧野王|顾野王[Gu4 Ye3 wang2] in 6th century AD
Trad. 類篇
- Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] et al in 11th century
Trad. 詩篇
- a poem
- a composition in verse
- fig. epic (compared with historical epic)
- the biblical Book of Psalms
Trad. 開篇
- start of literary work
- opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2]
- Shizhoupian, early school primer in great seal script 大篆[da4 zhuan4], attributed to King Xuan of Zhou 周宣王[Zhou1 Xuan1 wang2] but probably dating from c. 500 BC
- Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established
Trad. 連篇累牘
- (of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom)
- verbose
Trad. 鬼話連篇
- to tell one lie after another (idiom)
- to talk nonsense
- bogus story
- thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive
- once you've seen one, you've seen them all
Trad. 廢話連篇
- a bunch of nonsense
- verbose and rambling
Trad. 長篇累牘
- (of a text) very lengthy (idiom)