薯片
shǔ piàn · HSK 6
fried potato chips
🥔🍟 shǔ = potato, piàn = slice/chip — potato slices
薯 (shǔ) means potato or yam. 片 (piàn) means a thin flat piece or slice. Together they literally say potato slices — fried thin and crispy, exactly what chips are.
片 — right half of 木 (tree split vertically)
Pictograph showing the right half of a tree 木 split down the middle, depicting a thin slice or slab of wood. From this came the meanings 'slice,' 'flat thin piece,' and by extension 'sheet' or 'card.' Its mirror image 爿 represents the left half.