HSK 6 · Media

镜头 jìngtóu “camera shot” in Chinese

Traditional 鏡頭

What 镜头 means

  1. camera shot
  2. scene
  3. camera lens
  4. camera shot (in a movie etc)

How to say 镜头

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale镜jìng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale头tóu2nd tone, rising

镜头 in a sentence

  1. 这部电影的开头镜头很美。

    Zhè bù diànyǐng de kāitóu jìngtóu hěn měi.

    The opening shot of this film is beautiful.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我的相机镜头脏了。

    Wǒ de xiàngjī jìngtóu zāng le.

    My camera lens is dirty.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 镜头 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 镜 (jìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
镜jìngmirror
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 竟finally · jìngSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 竟 (jìng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jìng.

The character 头 (tóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
头tóuhead
  • ⺀ice form of 冫 · bīng
  • 大big · dàMeaning part

Memory aidSimplified from 頭, where 页 meant “head” and 豆 (dòu) gave the sound.

How to write 镜头

镜 16 strokes · 头 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

镜头 (jìngtóu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 镜头 (jìngtóu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 镜头

Words with 镜

眼镜yǎnjìng · glasses镜子jìngzi · mirror

Words with 头

头tóu · head头发tóufa · hair on the head馒头mántou · steamed roll骨头gǔtou · bone石头shítou · stone木头mùtou · wood拳头quántou · fist舌头shétou · tongue口头kǒutóu · oral码头mǎtou · dock

More words: Media & Arts

公告gōnggào · announcement工艺品gōngyìpǐn · handicraft轰动hōngdòng · sensation节奏jiézòu · rhythm剧本jùběn · script (for a play or film)据悉jùxī · it is reported that刊登kāndēng · to publish (in a newspaper or magazine)刊物kānwù · publication

FAQs

镜头 (jìngtóu) means “camera shot” or “scene”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jìngtóu: jìng with a 4th tone, then tóu with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 镜头 is written 鏡頭. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jingtou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 镜头 from the suggestions. Typing jingtou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
镜头 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.