偏偏
piānpiān · HSK 7
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偏 = 亻person + 扁 (flat, biǎn); doubled, it means stubbornly contrary, against expectation
偏 is a person leaning to one side; reduplicated as 偏偏 it marks something happening just the opposite of what you wanted or expected. Note it echoes the sound of 扁 biǎn (flat) shifted to piān.
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.'
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.'