I rarely go to the movies.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
影院
cinema; movie theater
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cinema; movie theater
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 影院 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 影院 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
To prevent them from being pirated, some of his films were never shown at the cinema.
Tom was so shy that he didn't even look at Mary when he asked her in a thin, barely audible voice whether she might possibly consider going to the cinema with him.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 影院.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 影院.
Directly before
- 去影院3
- 在影院1
Directly after
- 影院上映1
- 影院时1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 影院
What does 影院 mean in Chinese?
影院 (yǐngyuàn) means cinema; movie theater.
How do you pronounce 影院?
影院 is pronounced yǐngyuàn.
Is 影院 an HSK word?
影院 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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