长篇
cháng piān
Pinyin

Definition

长篇
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cháng piān
  1. lengthy (report or speech)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (13)

piān
  1. 1 sheet
  2. 2 piece of writing
  3. 3 bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
  4. 4 classifier for written items: chapter, article
qiān piān yī lu:4
  1. 1 thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive
  2. 2 once you've seen one, you've seen them all
míng piān
  1. 1 famous piece of writing
piān fu
  1. 1 length (of a piece of writing)
  2. 2 space occupied on a printed page
piān mù
  1. 1 table of contents
piān zhāng
  1. 1 writing
  2. 2 sections and chapters
xù piān
  1. 1 sequel
  2. 2 continuation (of a story)
fān piān r5
  1. 1 to turn a page
  2. 2 (fig.) to turn over a new leaf
shī piān
  1. 1 a poem
  2. 2 a composition in verse
  3. 3 fig. epic (compared with historical epic)
  4. 4 the biblical Book of Psalms
lián piān lěi dú
  1. 1 (of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom)
  2. 2 verbose
cháng piān
  1. 1 lengthy (report or speech)
kāi piān
  1. 1 start of literary work
  2. 2 opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tán cí]
guǐ huà lián piān
  1. 1 to tell one lie after another (idiom)
  2. 2 to talk nonsense
  3. 3 bogus story

Idioms (5)

千篇一律
qiān piān yī lu:4
  1. 1 thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive
  2. 2 once you've seen one, you've seen them all
洋洋大篇
yáng yáng dà piān
  1. 1 lit. an ocean of writing
  2. 2 an impressive literary work (idiom)
连篇累牍
lián piān lěi dú
  1. 1 (of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom)
  2. 2 verbose
长篇累牍
cháng piān lěi dú
  1. 1 (of a text) very lengthy (idiom)
鬼话连篇
guǐ huà lián piān
  1. 1 to tell one lie after another (idiom)
  2. 2 to talk nonsense
  3. 3 bogus story

Sample Sentences

科技的方便代价可不小,好!我现在发愿脸书每篇都长篇探讨世界万物的真理!
kējì de fāngbiàn dàijià kě bùxiǎo ,hǎo !wǒ xiànzài fāyuàn liǎnshū měi piān dōu chángpiān tàntǎo shìjiè wànwù de zhēnlǐ !
There is a big cost to the convenience of technology. OK! I hereby vow that all my posts on Facebook will be long articles with profound discussion of the truth of the universe!
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对啊,我记得当时莫言获奖的作品是一部叫《蛙》的长篇小说,这部小说一夜之间就成了最畅销的书籍,但谁又能说它比莫言其他的作品更优秀呢?
duìa ,wǒ jìde dāngshí Mòyán huòjiǎng de zuòpǐn shì yī bù jiào 《Wā 》de chángpiān xiǎoshuō ,zhè bù xiǎoshuō yīyèzhījiān jiù chéng le zuì chàngxiāo de shūjí ,dàn shéi yòu néng shuō tā bǐ Mòyán qítā de zuòpǐn gèng yōuxiù ne ?
Yes, I remember at the time that the work that Mo Yan won the prize for was a full-length novel called Frog and it became a bestseller overnight, but who is to say it's better than any of his other works?
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