偏
piān · HSK 6
stubbornly
🎹 person 亻+ flat 扁 = leaning stubbornly to one side
piān sounds like piano — stubborn as someone who keeps playing when told to stop. A person tilted flat, biased and contrary.
偏 — person radical 亻 + 扁 (flat/biǎn)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 亻 (person) gives the meaning side, while 扁 supplies the sound. Originally suggesting a person standing off to one side, it came to mean 'slanted,' 'inclined,' or 'one-sided,' and by extension 'biased' or 'partial.'