影 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

yǐng HSK1

shadow

影 yǐng

picture nounverb: (bound form) photograph; picture; film; movie; motion picture

shadow verbnoun: (bound form) shadow; reflection; image

trace adjectivenoun: (bound form) trace; vague impression; sign

to copy: (bound form) to copy; to trace; to facsimile; to photocopy

to hide: (bound form) to hide; to conceal; to cover up

surname: a Chinese surname

shadow puppetry: (bound form) shadow puppet play 皮影戏 píyǐngxì

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Cross-References

Same as

景 yǐng

Referenced by

系风捕景 xìfēngbǔyǐng

Has erhua variant

影儿 yǐngr

Frequency

Character

Written text: 390th most common 562.6 per million
Movie subtitles: 411th most common 361.3 per million appears in 72% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 25.0 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text: 61.9 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 1
HSK 3.0: Level 1
Strokes: 15
Unicode: U+5F71

Sources

Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)