suō yǐng

Traditional: 縮影

HSK 7–9

缩影 (suō yǐng) is a Chinese word meaning “miniature version of sth; microcosm; epitome”.

Meanings

  1. 1miniature version of sth
  2. 2microcosm
  3. 3epitome
  4. 4(Tw) to microfilm
Part of speech
noun

Characters in 缩影

缩suō · to withdraw影yǐng · picture

Related words

电影movie; film影响influence影picture摄影师photographer; cinematographer; cameraman摄影to take a photograph阴影(lit. and fig.) shadow影片a copy of a film影像image影子shadow缩小to reduce; to decrease; to shrink摄影机(old) camera退缩to shrink back; to cower

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