Chinese symbol for “filmmaking”

电影制作

diàn yǐng zhì zuò

Traditional: 電影製作

filmmaking; film production

The closest CC-CEDICT match for filmmaking is 电影制作 (diàn yǐng zhì zuò), defined as: filmmaking; film production.

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Characters and stroke order

电 diàn

electricity; electric; lightning

radical 102 ⽥ · 5 strokes

影 yǐng

shadow; image, reflection; photograph

radical 59 ⼺ · 15 strokes

制 zhì

system; to establish; to manufacture; to overpower

radical 18 ⼑ · 8 strokes

作 zuò

to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform

radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 电影制作.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
电影 (電影)	diàn yǐng	movie; film; measure word: 部 (bù)
电话 (電話)	diàn huà	telephone; measure word: 部 (bù)
电视 (電視)	diàn shì	television; TV; 台 (tái),部 (bù)
电子 (電子)	diàn zǐ	electronic; electron (particle physics)
电脑 (電腦)	diàn nǎo	computer; 台 (tái)
电视台 (電視台)	diàn shì tái	television station
影响 (影響)	yǐng xiǎng	influence; effect
影片	yǐng piàn	a copy of a film; film; motion picture; movie
控制	kòng zhì	to control
工作	gōng zuò	to work; (of a machine) to operate

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.