Definitions
(adj)
flat
Etymology
Pictograph of a signboard attached to a door. Based on the original meaning "signboard". The meaning later shifted to "tablet" and "flat".
About
The character "扁" is structurally composed of 户, meaning door, and 冊, meaning book or register, with the combination etymologically indicating a flat inscribed object like a door plaque. Its early meaning centered on such flat tablets or nameplates, which later broadened to describe the general attribute of flatness. This then extended to verbal uses meaning to flatten or press flat, and in contemporary colloquial language, it acquired the additional informal sense of to beat or thrash.
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这个纸箱被压得很扁。
妈妈今天买了扁豆。
他用扁担挑着两桶水。
别把面包压扁了。
他的扁桃体有些发炎。
他一拳把沙袋打扁了。
足球没气，已经扁了。
不要看扁别人的努力。