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影 — picture; image; film

picture; image; film; movie; photograph; reflection; shadow

Pinyin
yǐng
Strokes
15
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 影: 15 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

影 — 15 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 影 in the HSK syllabus: 15

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 电影diànyǐngmovie; filmHSK 1
  2. 电影院diànyǐngyuàncinema; movie theaterHSK 1
  3. 影响yǐngxiǎnginfluence; effect; to influence; to affectHSK 3
  4. 合影héyǐnggroup photo; to take a group photoHSK 5
  5. 摄影shèyǐngto take a photograph; photography; to shootHSK 5
  6. 影片yǐngpiàna copy of a film; film; motion picture; movieHSK 5
  7. 影视yǐngshìmovies and televisionHSK 5
  8. 影子yǐngzishadow; reflection; hint; indication; influenceHSK 6
  9. 背影bèiyǐngrear view; figure seen from behind; view of the backHSK 7–9
  10. 幻影huànyǐngphantom; mirageHSK 7–9
  11. 身影shēnyǐngsilhouette; figureHSK 7–9
  12. 缩影suōyǐngminiature version of sth; microcosm; epitomeHSK 7–9
  13. 形影不离xíngyǐng-bùlíinseparableHSK 7–9
  14. 阴影yīnyǐngshadowHSK 7–9
  15. 影像yǐngxiàngimageHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.