[ʃәd]
n.
(瓷)碎片, 破片

[ noun ]
a broken piece of a brittle artifact
<noun.artifact>

Sherd \Sherd\, n.
A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd.
See {Shard}.

The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove.
--Chapman.

Shard \Shard\ (sh[aum]rd), n. [AS. sceard, properly a p. p. from
the root of scearn to shear, to cut; akin to D. schaard a
fragment, G. scharte a notch, Icel. skar[eth]. See {Shear},
and cf. {Sherd}.] [Written also {sheard}, and {sherd}.]
1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like
brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
--Shak.

The precious dish
Broke into shards of beauty on the board. --E.
Arnold.

2. (Zo["o]l.) The hard wing case of a beetle.

They are his shards, and he their beetle. --Shak.

3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.] --Stanyhurst.

4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] --Spenser.