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片 かた-、かた 破片(はへん): fragment; splinter; broken piece片道(かたみち): one-way (trip)片仮名(カタカナ): katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords片寄る(かたよる): to be one-sided; to incline; to be partial; to be prejudiced; to lean; to be biased; to be biassed片付ける(かたづける): (1) to tidy up; to put in order; to straighten up; to put away (2) to settle (problem); to clear (dispute) (3) to finish; to bring something to an end (4) to marry off (e.g. a daughter) (5) to do away with someone; to bump someone off片思い(かたおもい): unrequited love片付く(かたづく): (1) to be put in order; to be put to rights (2) to be disposed of; to be solved (3) to be finished (4) to be married (off)片言(かたこと): prattle; broken language; halting language; baby talk; imperfect speech; smattering片付け(かたづけ): tidying up; finishing片(かた): (1) one (of a pair) (2) incomplete; imperfect; fragmentary (3) few; little (4) off-centre; remote (5) side; problem; question; matters 6 片: (a) slice, slice radical (no. 91) 片 4 (none) one-sided Taking the keyword in the sense of only one part of a whole, I see this as a pictograph of a man kneeling and presenting the ring to his future wife (I couldn´t see any trees or branches in there).

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ヘン one-sided, leaf, sheet 2 1076 4 91 かた・かたへん 象形 Pictographic Fuaburisu´s pictograph of a man kneeling and presenting the ring to his future wife is a one-sided version of the story. Others say he was giving her the finger.

Kanji	片
Onyomi	ヘン
Kunyomi	かた-、かた
English	one-sided, leaf, sheet
Examples	破片(はへん): fragment; splinter; broken piece 片道(かたみち): one-way (trip) 片仮名(カタカナ): katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords 片寄る(かたよる): to be one-sided; to incline; to be partial; to be prejudiced; to lean; to be biased; to be biassed 片付ける(かたづける): (1) to tidy up; to put in order; to straighten up; to put away (2) to settle (problem); to clear (dispute) (3) to finish; to bring something to an end (4) to marry off (e.g. a daughter) (5) to do away with someone; to bump someone off 片思い(かたおもい): unrequited love 片付く(かたづく): (1) to be put in order; to be put to rights (2) to be disposed of; to be solved (3) to be finished (4) to be married (off) 片言(かたこと): prattle; broken language; halting language; baby talk; imperfect speech; smattering 片付け(かたづけ): tidying up; finishing 片(かた): (1) one (of a pair) (2) incomplete; imperfect; fragmentary (3) few; little (4) off-centre; remote (5) side; problem; question; matters
JLPT Level	2
Jouyou Grade	6
Frequency	1076
Components	片: (a) slice, slice radical (no. 91)
Number of Strokes	4
Kanji Radical	片
Radical Number	91
Radical Strokes	4
Radical Reading	かた・かたへん
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	象形 Pictographic
Keyword	one-sided
Koohii Story 1	Fuaburisu´s pictograph of a man kneeling and presenting the ring to his future wife is a one-sided version of the story. Others say he was giving her the finger.
Koohii Story 2	Taking the keyword in the sense of only one part of a whole, I see this as a pictograph of a man kneeling and presenting the ring to his future wife (I couldn´t see any trees or branches in there).

Put 片 Broken Order Language One Sided Pictograph Man