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导演

dǎo yǎn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 導演

导演 (dǎo yǎn) means "to direct (a film/play); director". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 导演 means

1. to direct
2. director (film etc)

The characters in 导演

• 导dǎoto transmit; to lead; to guide
• 演yǎnto perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out…

Example sentences

• 谁是您最喜欢的导演？
  Shéi shì nín zuì xǐhuān de dǎoyǎn?
  Who is your favourite director?
• 他是个富有才能的年轻导演。
  Tā shì gè fùyǒu cáinéng de niánqīng dǎoyǎn.
  He is a talented young director.
• "侏儒流氓"是德国导演韦纳荷索在一九七零年的一部电影。
  Even Dwarfs Started Small is a 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog.

Where 导演 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Arts, Literature & Classical Culture (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎo yǎn correctly.
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