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影

yǐng

HSK 1 Character

What 影 means

1. picture
2. image
3. film
4. movie
5. photograph
6. reflection
7. shadow
8. trace

Example sentences

• 立竿见影。
  Lìgānjiànyǐng.
  The shadow of the stick is visible.
• 我爱电影。
  I love movies.
• 影片很长。
  It's a long video.
• 她没去看电影
  She didn't go to watch movie.
• 她涂了眼影。
  Tā tú le yǎnyǐng.
  She's wearing eye shadow.
• 电影好看吗？
  Was the movie good?

Words starting with 影

• 影响yǐng xiǎnginfluence; effect; to influence
• 影子yǐng zishadow; reflection; (fig.) hint
• 影片yǐng piàna copy of a film; film; motion picture; movie; (Taiwan) video; video clip
• 影视yǐng shìmovies and television
• 影响力yǐng xiǎng lìinfluence; impact
• 影院yǐng yuàncinema; movie theater
• 影像yǐng xiàngimage
• 影音yǐng yīn(Taiwan) audio and video; audiovisual
• 影星yǐng xīngfilm star
• 影评yǐng píngfilm review
• 影展yǐng zhǎnfilm festival; photography exhibition
• 影坛yǐng tánmoviedom; the world of movies; film circles
• 影碟yǐng diéDVD
• 影集yǐng jíphoto album; (Taiwan) TV series
• 影印yǐng yìnphotographic reproduction; photocopying; photo-offset
• 影剧院yǐng jù yuàncinema; movie theater
• 影帝yǐng dì(male) superstar of the silver screen; best actor award winner
• 影射yǐng shèto refer obliquely to; to insinuate; innuendo
• 影壁yǐng bì(traditional Chinese architecture) spirit wall – a screen wall placed inside or outside a…
• 影儿yǐng rshadow
• 影后yǐng hòumovie queen; best actress award winner
• 影本yǐng běncopy (of a document); book with model calligraphy for copying
• 影业yǐng yèfilm industry
• 影评人yǐng píng rénfilm critic

Words containing 影

• 电影diàn yǐngmovie; film
• 摄影shè yǐngto take a photograph; photography; to shoot (a movie)
• 合影hé yǐnggroup photo; to take a group photo
• 身影shēn yǐngsilhouette; figure
• 电影院diàn yǐng yuàncinema; movie theater
• 阴影yīn yǐng(lit. and fig.) shadow
• 背影bèi yǐngrear view; figure seen from behind; view of the back (of a person or object)
• 电影节diàn yǐng jiéfilm festival
• 人影rén yǐngthe shadow of a human figure; a trace of a person's presence…
• 摄影师shè yǐng shīphotographer; cinematographer; cameraman
• 有影响yǒu yǐng xiǎnginfluential
• 踪影zōng yǐngtrace; vestige; presence
• 黑影hēi yǐngshadow; darkness; twilight
• 无影无踪wú yǐng wú zōng(idiom) (to disappear) without a trace
• 幻影huàn yǐngphantom; mirage
• 摄影机shè yǐng jī(old) camera; movie camera; cine camera
• 拍电影pāi diàn yǐngto make a movie
• 投影tóu yǐngto project; a projection
• 光影guāng yǐnglight and shadow; sunlight and shade
• 电影票diàn yǐng piàocinema ticket
• 缩影suō yǐngminiature version of sth; microcosm; epitome
• 倒影dào yǐnginverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
• 留影liú yǐngto take a photo as a souvenir; a souvenir photo
• 形影不离xíng yǐng bù líinseparable (as form and shadow)

Characters that look like 影

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 潮cháotide; damp; moist; humid; fashionable; trendy
• 慰wèito comfort; to console; to reassure
• 彰zhāngclear; conspicuous; manifest
• 憩qìto rest
• 榭xièpavilion
• 厮sī(bound form) together; each other; (bound form) male servant; (bound form) dude…

Sounds the same

Read yǐng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 颖head of grain; husk; tip
• 瘿goiter; knob on tree
• 郢Ying, ancient capital of Chu 楚 in Hubei, Jianling county 江陵县
• 矨short and small
• 颍surname Ying; river in Henan and Anhui
• 颕old variant of 颖