册

ce

book, volume, tom

register, record

bamboo stripes tied together as a book

丌

ji

户

hu

door, household family, 

a single door (compared to the larger double doors 门) is for a small household

扁

bian

flat, flattened

to make flat

door 户 [hù] + book 冊→册²¹⁷[cè]

A door (户) with a writing 册 FLAT surface mounted by a doorway

典

dian

canon; ceremony;

dictionary

典籍 canon (ancient texts); 典礼 ceremony (ritual ceremony)

典当 mortgage ("to pawn" lit. canon-exchange)

Sacred texts (册) placed on an altar (八) become canon (典)

竹

zhu

篇

pian

piece (of writing); sheet

measure words for written items

(短篇) "short stories"

bamboo 竹²¹⁶[zhú] + flat 扁 [biǎn]

Before paper was invented, slabs of bamboo (竹) flattened (扁) and tied together to make a piece of writing