Take a photo in Chinese
to take a photo · HSK 3
拍照
- 拍 to pat
- 照 to shine
我们在湖边拍照吧。 Let's take photos by the lake.
Other ways to say take a photo
More words with 拍 or 照
How do you say take a photo in Chinese?
Take a photo in Chinese is 拍照 (pāi zhào). You can also say 摄影 (shè yǐng).
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.