片段 (piàn duàn) — fragment, excerpt, clip (of text, speech, video); episode (of a story, series)
Definition
A piece cut or taken from a larger whole — a passage of text, a clip of video, or an episode of a story. Compared with 插曲 (more figurative 'episode / interlude' as a brief incident), 片段 is concrete and countable: the actual segment itself.
noun
fragmentexcerptclip (of text, speech, video)episode (of a story, series)
Measure word · 个
Examples
- 片段。Wǒ cóng nà běn shū lǐ dú le yí piàn duàn.I read a passage from that book.
- 片段。Zhè ge piàn duàn shì diàn yǐng lǐ zuì jīng cǎi de bù fen.This clip is the most exciting part of the movie.
- 片段。Diàn shì jù de zuì hòu yí piàn duàn ràng wǒ hěn gǎn dòng.The last episode of the TV series moved me deeply.
Appears in
Browse more HSK 7-9 words or search the full 43,000-word dictionary.