sheet / piece of writing / bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old) / classifier for written items: chapter, article
篇
=
⺮
+
扁
:
Pocahontas (pi) got a job as delivery girl. In front of the anthill (an1), she is moving her small boat (扁) with a bamboo stick (⺮) to deliver packets of (篇) ancient bamboo books (篇).
"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)
Mnemonic symbol: a bamboo stick.
Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is cooking bamboo shoots in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He's cooking them in a large pot and stirs them with a bamboo stick (⺮).
扁
=
𠕁
+
户
:
Pocahontas (pi) is modding her small boat (扁) in front of the anthill (an1). She is attaching a fighting claw (𠕁) as weapon and a wooden swinging door (户) as a shield.
flat / (coll.) to beat (sb) up / old variant of 匾[bian3]
扁
=
𠕁
+
户
:
Brunhilde (bi) enters the anthill's bar (an3), shouts like a madwoman and stretches her fighting claw (𠕁) and wooden swinging door-shield (户) into the air. Everyone is very afraid and instinctly throws themselves flat (扁) onto the ground, but Brunhilde just wanted a drink.
扁
=
𠕁
+
户
:
Pocahontas (pi) is modding her small boat (扁) in front of the anthill (an1). She is attaching a fighting claw (𠕁) as weapon and a wooden swinging door (户) as a shield.
竹
=
𠂉
+
丨
+
亅
:
Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is weaving a bamboo basket (竹) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He is using a key (𠂉), a dinosaur bone (丨) and a crowbar (亅) as basis structure and connects the three stays by weaving soft bamboo (竹) around them.
Characters with 篇 as component
篇
is not used as a component in another character.
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