影片

影

yǐng

片

piàn

film / movie / CL:部[bu4]

Characters and words in 影片

影

yǐng = y + (e)ng3

picture / image / film / movie / photograph / reflection / shadow / trace

影 = 彡 + 景 : Maud Younger (y) wants to watch a movie (影) inside of the engine ((e)ng3), but only men are allowed. She doesn't bounce back but instead, being a suffragist, puts on a long, fake Santa beard (彡). She enters to find that the whole movie consists of a still frame of a bonsai tree, a landscape in a pot. Back in the days, the script writers were not so experienced it seems.

片

pia̅n = pi + an1

disk / sheet

片

piàn = pi + an4

thin piece / flake / a slice / film / TV play / to slice / to carve thin / partial / incomplete / one-sided / classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water / classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc / used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc / Kangxi radical 91

Mnemonic symbol: a DVD. Pocahontas secretly sells DVDs in the anthill's bathroom.