(yǐng) - shadow, image, film (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

yǐng

Traditional: 影

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Translation

shadow, image, film (bound morpheme)

Word origin

影 (yǐng) means shadow or image. It is a phono-semantic character: 彡 suggests light, rays and patterning, while 景 (jǐng) supplies the sound.

影

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Let's go to a movie tonight.

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This film is very good.

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He likes watching old films.

树shù落luò墙qiáng。

The tree's shadow falls on the wall.

树shù。

The shadow of the tree is very long.

影 (yǐng) means shadow or image. It is a bound morpheme and most often appears in 电影 (diàn yǐng), film or movie.

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 影.

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This word is part of lesson 105.