影
yǐng HSK1

shadow

影 yǐng
film noun
a motion picture, photograph, or related visual media

我们全家人在老宅前合了一张影。

wǒ​men quán jiā​rén zài lǎo​zhái qián hé le yī zhāng yǐng.

Our whole family took a photo together in front of the old house.

reflection noun
an image or representation of an object seen in a mirror, water, or other surface

平静的湖面倒映着垂柳的影。

píng​jìng de hú​miàn dào​yìng zhe chuí​liǔ de yǐng.

The reflections of the weeping willows are mirrored on the calm lake surface.

shadow noun
a dark shape produced by an object blocking light

路灯把他的影投在斑驳的墙面上。

lù​dēng bǎ tā de yǐng tóu zài bān​bó de qiáng​miàn shàng.

The streetlights cast his shadow onto the mottled wall.

trace noun
a slight sign, indication, or vestige of something being present

这事儿还没个影儿呢。

zhèi shì r hái méi gè yǐng r ne.

There's no sign of this happening yet.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)