电影

Character by character

• 电diàn5 strokesHSK 1 traditional 電electricity; electric; lightning
• 影yǐng15 strokesHSK 1shadow; image, reflection; photograph

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

Example sentences

• 你看电影吗？

  Nǐ kàn diàn yǐng ma

  Do you watch movies?

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• 我去看电影。

  Wǒ qù kàn diàn yǐng

  I'm going to the cinema.

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• 她没去看电影。

  Tā méi qù kàn diàn yǐng

  She didn't go see the movie.

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• 我想看这部电影。

  Wǒ xiǎng kàn zhè bù diàn yǐng

  I want to see the movie.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

• 电话diàn huàHSK 1

  telephone; phone call; phone number

• 影响yǐng xiǎngHSK 2

  influence; effect; to influence; to affect (usually adversely); to disturb

• 电视diàn shìHSK 1

  television; TV

• 电脑diàn nǎoHSK 1

  computer

• 电diànHSK 1

  lightning; electricity; electric (bound form); to get (or give) an electric shock; phone call or telegram etc; to send via telephone or telegram etc

• 打电话dǎ diàn huàHSK 1

  to make a telephone call

• 电子diàn zǐ

  electronic; electron (particle physics)

• 摄影shè yǐngHSK 5

  to take a photograph; photography; to shoot (a movie)

• 影片yǐng piànHSK 2

  a copy of a film; film; motion picture; movie

• 电力diàn lìHSK 6

  electrical power; electricity

• 电梯diàn tīHSK 4

  elevator; escalator

• 电视台diàn shì táiHSK 3

  television station

• 电池diàn chíHSK 5

  battery

• 电视剧diàn shì jùHSK 3

  TV series; TV drama

• 影像yǐng xiàngHSK 7

  image

• 摄影师shè yǐng shīHSK 5

  photographer; cameraman

• 影响力yǐng xiǎng lìHSK 6

  influence; impact

• 电台diàn táiHSK 3

  transmitter-receiver; broadcasting station; radio station

• 阴影yīn yǐngHSK 6

  (lit. and fig.) shadow

• 影子yǐng ziHSK 4

  shadow; reflection; (fig.) hint; indication; influence

• 电源diàn yuánHSK 4

  electric power source

• 闪电shǎn diànHSK 4

  lightning

• 来电lái diànHSK 7

  incoming telephone call (or telegram); to phone in; to send in a telegram; to have an instant attraction to sb; (of electricity, after an outage) to come back

• 电视机diàn shì jīHSK 1

  television set