篇

sheet / piece of writing / bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old) / classifier for written items: chapter, article

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

surname Pian

flat / (coll.) to beat (sb) up / old variant of 匾[bian3]

small boat

bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive / once you've seen one, you've seen them all

short story

start of literary work / opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2]

novella

a bunch of nonsense / verbose and rambling

final installment / last phase / end

flash fiction

lit. an ocean of writing / an impressive literary work (idiom)

Yupian, Chinese dictionary compiled by Gu Yewang 顧野王|顾野王[Gu4 Ye3 wang2] in 6th century AD

famous piece of writing

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