Photo in Chinese
photo · HSK 3
照片
- 照 to shine
- 片 thin piece
Counted with 张: 一张照片
这张照片是在海边拍的。 This photo was taken at the seaside.
Other ways to say photo
More words with 照 or 片
How do you say photo in Chinese?
Photo in Chinese is 照片 (zhào piàn). You can also say 照 (zhào), 片 (piān).
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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Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.