| 篇 | [ piān ] sheet, piece of writing, bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old), classifier for written items: chapter, article |
| 篇什 | [ piān shí ] poem |
| 篇幅 | [ piān fu ] length (of a piece of writing), space occupied on a printed page |
| 篇目 | [ piān mù ] table of contents |
| 篇章 | [ piān zhāng ] writing, sections and chapters |
| 篇韻 | [ piān yùn ] abbr. for Yupian 玉篇[Yu4 pian1] and Guangyun 廣韻|广韵[Guang3 yun4] |
| ⇒ 中篇小說 | [ zhōng piān shuō ] novella |
| ⇒ 千篇一律 | [ qiān piān yī lǜ ] thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive, once you've seen one, you've seen them all |
| ⇒ 史籀篇 | [ shǐ zhoù piān ] 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 |
| ⇒ 名篇 | [ míng piān ] famous piece of writing |
| ⇒ 廢話連篇 | [ feì huà lián piān ] a bunch of nonsense, verbose and rambling |
| ⇒ 末篇 | [ mò piān ] final installment, last phase, end |
| ⇒ 極短篇小說 | [ jí duǎn piān shuō ] flash fiction |
| ⇒ 洋洋大篇 | [ yáng yáng dà piān ] lit. an ocean of writing, an impressive literary work (idiom) |
| ⇒ 玉篇 | [ yù piān ] Yupian, Chinese dictionary compiled by Gu Yewang 顧野王|顾野王[Gu4 Ye3 wang2] in 6th century AD |
| ⇒ 短篇小說 | [ duǎn piān shuō ] short story |
| ⇒ 空話連篇 | [ kōng huà lián piān ] long-winded empty talk |
| ⇒ 續篇 | [ xù piān ] sequel, continuation (of a story) |
| ⇒ 翻篇兒 | [ fān piān ] to turn a page, (fig.) to turn over a new leaf |
| ⇒ 老三篇 | [ laǒ sān piān ] Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established |
| ⇒ 詩篇 | [ shī piān ] a poem, a composition in verse, fig. epic (compared with historical epic), the biblical Book of Psalms |
| ⇒ 語篇 | [ yǔ piān ] discourse, text |
| ⇒ 連篇累牘 | [ lián piān leǐ dú ] (of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom), verbose |
| ⇒ 長篇 | [ cháng piān ] lengthy (report or speech) |
| ⇒ 長篇小說 | [ cháng piān shuō ] novel |
| ⇒ 長篇累牘 | [ cháng piān leǐ dú ] (of a text) very lengthy (idiom) |
| ⇒ 開篇 | [ kaī piān ] start of literary work, opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] |
| ⇒ 類篇 | [ leì piān ] 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 |
| ⇒ 鬼話連篇 | [ guǐ huà lián piān ] to tell one lie after another (idiom), to talk nonsense, bogus story |
