影视

yǐng shì · HSK 3

television

🎬📺 影视 = shadow + vision: 影 (shadow/film) + 视 (sight/view)

影 originally meant shadow, then came to mean film/movie (light casting shadows on screen). 视 means to view or sight. Together they cover both cinema (影) and television (视) — the visual entertainment industry.

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