TSUMUGU · TOCFL B1 (est.) · 字
扁
ㄅㄧㄢˇ · biǎn
adj — flat, level, thin
字源 FORM — what the parts do
A door (戶) and bound slips (冊) — a thing written on a flat panel, the signboard over a gate; from the panel, the sense flat and thin. The flat shapes: 扁平, 扁擔, the pressed 壓扁.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
門（戶）上掛一塊寫好的木板，又平又薄——扁。
A written panel hung over the door (戶), flat and thin — flat.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)署、匾— a signboard, plaque
→扁平、扁擔— flat; a carrying-pole常用
⇒壓扁— to flatten, press flat
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension