电影

电影 diànyǐng in a sentence

Movie (film - flick)

Full dictionary entry HSK 1 6 sentences

电影 (diànyǐng) means Movie (film - flick). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

我喜欢看 电影

Wǒ xǐhuan kàn diànyǐng.

I like watching movies.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 电影

电影 八点开始。

Diànyǐng bā diǎn kāishǐ.

The film starts at eight.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 开始

这个 电影 怎么样?

Zhège diànyǐng zěnmeyàng?

How is this movie?

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 怎么样

他和朋友一起看 电影

Tā hé péngyou yìqǐ kàn diànyǐng.

He is watching a film with a friend.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 一起

From the graded readers

我们就在客厅里吃东西、看 电影 、玩游戏。

wǒmen jiù zài kè tīng lǐ chī dōngxī, kàn / kān diànyǐng, wán / wàn yóuxì.

So we ate in the living room, watched a film and played games.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day

星期天我去看了朋友,晚上还看了一个 电影

xīngqītīan wǒ qù kànle péngyou, wǎnshang hái / huán kànle yīgè diànyǐng.

On Sunday I visited a friend and watched a film in the evening.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend

Questions about 电影

How is 电影 used in a sentence?

This page shows 6 sentences using 电影 (diànyǐng, "Movie (film - flick)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 电影 an HSK word?

Yes — 电影 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 电影?

The dictionary page for 电影 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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