Wei Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Feather (yǔ)
Kangxi strokes: 15
Page 958, Entry 19
Pronounced pian.
Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Flying swiftly.
Guangya (Guangya): Pianpian means flying.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: The turtle doves flying swiftly.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Tai hexagram: Fluttering, not wealthy with one's neighbors.
Shiwen (Shiwen): Appearance of lifting lightly.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: Bustling and fluttering.
Commentary: Appearance of coming and going.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: The red horn bow, fluttering it returns.
Commentary: Returning in a fluttering manner.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: The banners and flags fluttering.
Commentary: Fluttering on the road without ceasing.
History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Ban Gu: Fluttering and majestic.
Annotation: The appearance of the palace gates being prominent and grand.
Yunbu (Yunbu): Also rhymed as pronounced yin (level tone).
Lu Ji, Rhapsody on the Twilight of Heaven (Tianmu Fu): The garden trees' blossoms fall, the grave grasses' roots decay. The pines and cypresses are lush, the flying birds are fluttering.