Movie in Chinese
movie · HSK 1
电影
- 电 electricity
- 影 shadow
Counted with 部: 一部电影
我们晚上去看电影吧。 Let's go see a movie tonight.
Other ways to say movie
More words with 电 or 影
How do you say movie in Chinese?
Movie in Chinese is 电影 (diàn yǐng). You can also say 影片 (yǐng piàn), 片 (piàn).
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.