影业 (yǐng yè) — the film industry; the motion-picture industry; cinema (as a business)

Definition

noun
the film industrythe motion-picture industrycinema (as a business)

Examples

  • 影业。
    Jìn shí nián zhōng guó yǐng yè fā zhǎn fēi cháng xùn sù.
    China's film industry has developed very rapidly in the past decade.
  • 影业。
    Tā cóng shì yǐng yè gōng zuò yǐ jīng èr shí duō nián le.
    He has been working in the film industry for over twenty years.
  • 影业。
    Zhè bù dà piàn duì běn dì yǐng yè de gòng xiàn hěn dà.
    This blockbuster made a great contribution to the local film industry.

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yǐngfilm
业yèbusiness

影 (film) and 业 (business) combine to mean the film business.

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 業; 业 is its simplified writing.

  • 丵丵zhuóchisel
  • 大大dàperson; big

The traditional 業 is explained as a picture of a beam from which bells and chimes hang, or as a person lifting that beam. The simplified 业 is a shorthand, not the original shape.

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