Cinema in Chinese (Mandarin): 电影院 (diànyǐngyuàn)
电影院
diànyǐngyuàn
cinema
- Simplified
- 电影院
- Traditional
- 電影院
- Pinyin
- diànyǐngyuàn
- Typed as
- dianyingyuan
Use it in a sentence
我们去电影院看电影。
我們去電影院看電影。
We go to the cinema to watch a movie.
The characters in 电影院
电 / 電
Electricity.
5 strokes
影
Shadow, image.
15 strokes
院
A courtyard or institution.
9 strokes
电影 is a movie, "electric shadows", and 院 is the building. A cartoon is 动画片 (dònghuàpiàn).
More examples with 电影院
电影院里很黑。
電影院裡很黑。
Diànyǐngyuàn li hěn hēi.
It's dark in the cinema.
我们在电影院吃爆米花。
我們在電影院吃爆米花。
Wǒmen zài diànyǐngyuàn chī bàomǐhuā.
We eat popcorn at the cinema.
How to write 电影院 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
电 5 strokes
影 15 strokes
院 9 strokes
In Traditional characters:
電 13 strokes
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