Chinese symbol for “camera”
照相机
zhào xiàng jī
Traditional: 照相機
camera; measure word: 台 (tái), 部 (bù), 架 (jià)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for camera is 照相机 (zhào xiàng jī), defined as: camera; measure word: 台 (tái), 部 (bù), 架 (jià).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “camera”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 摄影机 (攝影機) | shè yǐng jī | (old) camera; movie camera; cine camera |
| 长枪短炮 (長槍短炮) | cháng qiāng duǎn pào | camera (jocular) |
| 开麦拉 (開麥拉) | kāi mài lā | (Tw) (loanword) camera |
| 照像机 (照像機) | zhào xiàng jī | variant of 照相机 (zhào xiàng jī); camera |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 照相机.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 照片 | zhào piàn | photograph; 张 (zhāng),幅 (fú) |
| 按照 | àn zhào | according to; in accordance with; on the basis of |
| 照顾 (照顧) | zhào gu | to take care of; to show consideration |
| 依照 | yī zhào | according to; in light of |
| 护照 (護照) | hù zhào | passport; measure word: 本 (běn), 个 (gè) |
| 拍照 | pāi zhào | to take a picture |
| 相关 (相關) | xiāng guān | related; relevant |
| 相信 | xiāng xìn | to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true |
| 机构 (機構) | jī gòu | mechanism; structure |
See also: Japanese symbol for “camera”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.