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拍摄

pāi shè 1–4

to take (a picture); to shoot (a film)

HSK level
HSK 5
HSK 3.0 level 5
Characters
2
拍 · 摄
Syllables
2
pāi shè
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,697

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 拍pāi8 strokesHSK 3clap, tap, beat; beat or rhythm
  • 摄shè13 strokesHSK 5 traditional 攝take in, absorb; act as deputy

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 拍摄. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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