影 yǐng

1. yǐng noun an image; a reflection
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '影' n 2; NCCED '影' 2, p. 2304; Unihan '影'; XHZD '影' 3, p. 902)
2. yǐng noun a shadow
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 影子 (Guoyu '影' n 1; NCCED '影' 1, p. 2304; Unihan '影'; XHZD '影' 1, p. 902)
3. yǐng noun a photograph
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Photography
   Notes: (Guoyu '影' n 2; NCCED '影' 4, p. 2304; Unihan '影'; XHZD '影' 3, p. 902)
4. yǐng verb to trace; to outline
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 描摹 (Guoyu '影' v 2; NCCED '影' 9, p. 2304; XHZD '影' 2, p. 902)
5. yǐng noun a film; a movie
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '影' 6, p. 2304; XHZD '影' 4, p. 902)
6. yǐng noun a portrait of an ancestor
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '影' 5, p. 2304)
7. yǐng noun a shadow play
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '影' 7, p. 2304)
8. yǐng verb to hide
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Similar in meaning to 隐藏 in this sense of the word (Guoyu '影' v 3; NCCED '影' 8, p. 2304)
9. yǐng noun an outline
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '影' 3, p. 2304)
10. yǐng verb to reproduce; to copy
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 影印 (Guoyu '影' v 1)

Contained in

• 微距摄影(微距攝影) macro photography
• 交叉阴影线(交叉陰影線) hatched lines; cross-hatched graphic pattern
• 影剧(影劇) film and theater; screen and stage
• 摄影记者(攝影記者) photojournalist
• 形影 a shadow
• 影院 cinema; movie theater
• 缩影(縮影) a miniature; a big picture in a nutshell; the epitome
• 影壁 spirit screen ; a sculpture or painting on a wall
• 宽影片(寬影片) wide-screen movie
• 间隔摄影(間隔攝影) time-lapse photography
• 歌剧院魅影(歌劇院魅影) The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
• 影业(影業) film industry
• 黑影 shadow; darkness; twilight
• 录影(錄影) to videotape; to videorecord
• 电影院(電影院) cinema; movie theater
• 影堂 ancestral hall
• 影儿(影兒) shadow
• 面影 face (especially remembered); mental image of somebody
• 正电子照射断层摄影(正電子照射斷層攝影) positrion emission tomography (PET)
• 背影儿(背影兒) figure seen from behind
• 不见影(不見影) not a trace to be seen
• 摄影棚(攝影棚) film studio; television studio
• 皮影戏(皮影戲) shadow play
• 影像处理(影像處理) image processing
• 影集 photo album ; TV series
• 吠影吠声(吠影吠聲) to parrot other people's words
• 斜投影 oblique projection
• 倩影 beautiful image of a woman
• 顾影自怜(顧影自憐) looking at one's shadow and feeling sorry for oneself; alone and dejected
• 婚纱摄影(婚紗攝影) wedding photos (done in studio, kit and caboodle taken care of by the studio)
• 终成泡影(終成泡影) to come to nothing
• 形影不离(形影不離) as inseparable as a form from its shadow
• 心影儿(心影兒) child in need of help (orphaned, abandoned, abused etc)
• 无影无踪(無影無蹤) to disappear without trace
• 暗影 shadow; umbra
• 形影相吊(形影相弔) with only body and shadow to comfort each other; extremely sad and lonely
• 彩色摄影(彩色攝影) color photography
• 影钞本(影鈔本) an exact handwritten copy
• 影像扫描器(影像掃描器) image scanner
• 幻影 phantom; mirage
• 倒影 inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
• 捕风捉影(捕風捉影) chasing the wind and clutching at shadows
• 电影演员(電影演員) movie actor; movie actress
• 投影图(投影圖) perspective drawing
• 影坛(影壇) moviedom; the world of movies; film circles

Also contained in

探竿影草 、 电影节 、 邪典电影 、 电影奖 、 影子内阁 、 电影导演

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• 卷三十五 志第十五: 天文上 Volume 35 Treatises 15: Astronomy 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 49
• 卷17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 45
• 卷二十五 志第一 天文一 Volume 25 Treatises 1: Astronomy 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 26
• 卷三十三 志第十三: 曆二 Volume 33 Treatises 13: Calendar 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 21
• 卷69　列傳第34 王劭 袁充 Volume 69 Biographies 34: Wang Shao, Yuan Chong Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 18
• 卷七十七 志第三十 律曆十 Volume 77 Treatises 30: Measures and Calendar 10 History of Song 宋史 — count: 17
• 卷十二 志第二 歷上 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Calendar 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 16
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Collocations

• 日影 (日影) 激日謂日影激入於殿內也 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十上 班彪列傳 Volume 40a: Biography of Ban Biao 1 — count: 16
• 顾影 (顧影) 行步顧影 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷九 魏書十 荀彧荀攸賈詡傳 Volume 9: Book of Wei 9 - Biographies of the Xiahous and Caos — count: 7
• 测影 (測影) 以冬至之後立晷測影 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷九十四 列傳第六十四 隱逸 Volume 94 Biographies 64: Hermits and Recluses — count: 7
• 晷影 (晷影) 用句股重差推晷影極遊 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十一 志第一 天文上 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Astronomy Part One — count: 6
• 影附 (影附) 衆皆影附 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十五 魏書二十五 辛毗楊阜高堂隆傳 Volume 25: Book of Wei 25 - Biographies of Xin Pi, Yang Fu, and Gaotang Long — count: 6
• 影迹 (影跡) 影跡周密 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷六十三 列傳第二十三 王華 王曇首 殷景仁 沈演之 Volume 63 Biographies 23: Wang Hua, Wang Tanshou, Yin Jingren, Shen Yanzhi — count: 5
• 中影 (中影) 立冬中影長一丈 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷十三 志第三 歷下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Calendar 2 — count: 5
• 匿影 (匿影) 怪遂含光匿影 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷八 魏書八 二公孫陶四張傳 Volume 8: Book of Wei 8 - Biographies of the two Gongsuns, Tao, and the four Zhangs — count: 3
• 责影 (責影) 舍形責影 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷十三 志第三 歷下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Calendar 2 — count: 2
• 影度 (影度) 日影度南八寸 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷五十八 列傳第三十九 蠻 東南夷 Volume 58 Biographies 39: Other Peoples from the Southeast — count: 2