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影像

Mandarin · pinyin yǐng xiàng

image

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影: yǐng · shadow; image, reflection; photograph
像: xiàng · a picture, image, figure; to resemble

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3–4 · ying3 xiang4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

jing2 zoeng6

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noun

portrait; painting
impression; image (in one's mind)
image (produced by machines); silhouette
(medicine) short for 影像學／影像学 (yǐngxiàngxué, “radiology”)

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