Camera in Chinese
camera · HSK 3
相机
- 相 each other
- 机 machine
Counted with 台: 一台相机
我买了一台新相机。 I bought a new camera.
Other ways to say camera
More words with 相 or 机
How do you say camera in Chinese?
Camera in Chinese is 相机 (xiàng jī). You can also say 摄像头 (shè xiàng tóu).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.