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影集 (yǐng jí) — photo album

Definition

noun
photo album
Measure word · 本

Examples

  • 影集。
    Zhè běn yǐng jí lǐ yǒu hěn duō wǒ xiǎo shí hou de zhào piàn.
    This photo album has many pictures from my childhood.
  • 影集。
    Tā sòng le wǒ yì běn jīng zhuāng yǐng jí zuò wéi shēng rì lǐ wù.
    She gave me a hardcover photo album as a birthday present.
  • 影集。
    Wǒ men quán jiā yì qǐ fān kàn nà běn jiù yǐng jí.
    Our whole family flipped through that old photo album together.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

影yǐngimage
集jícollection

影 (images) and 集 (collection) mean a collection of photos.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
彡彡shān
Sound part声符shēngfú
景
景jǐng影yǐng
Same sound today

影 pairs 景, which gives the sound and also carries the idea of image, with 彡, the part that points to shadow.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

集 pairs 隹 (bird) with 木 (tree), showing birds on a tree, hence a gathering.

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Photography & Design

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