Meaning of 动画
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
- animation
- cartoon
How to use 动画
动画 refers to animation as a form, including cartoons, animated films and anime. It often appears in compounds like 动画片 (dònghuàpiàn, cartoon) and 动画电影 (dònghuà diànyǐng, animated film). Example: 我小时候每天看动画。 (Wǒ xiǎoshíhou měitiān kàn dònghuà.) I watched cartoons every day when I was little.
动 (dòng) means to move and 画 (huà) means picture, so 动画 is literally a moving picture. Imagine a drawing that starts to move on the page.
Common mistake: Learners sometimes write 画 (huà) as 话 (huà, speech) because they sound the same, giving the wrong word 动话. Remember the picture 画 has no speech radical 讠.
动画 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
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动 dòng · to move · 6 strokes
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画 huà · to draw · 8 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 动画.
| 动作 | dòngzuò | movement; motion; action; to act; to move |
| 行动 | xíngdòng | operation; action |
| 动物 | dòngwù | animal |
| 活动 | huódòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 运动 | yùndòng | to move; to exercise |
| 感动 | gǎndòng | to move (sb); to touch (sb emotionally) |
| 画家 | huàjiā | painter |
| 动物园 | dòngwùyuán | zoo |
| 画儿 | huàr | picture; drawing |
| 发动 | fādòng | to start; to launch |
| 自动 | zìdòng | automatic; voluntarily |
| 主动 | zhǔdòng | to take the initiative; to do sth of one's own accord |
Questions about 动画
What does 动画 mean?
动画 (dònghuà) means "animation; cartoon" and is used as a noun.
How do you write 动画?
动画 is made of 2 characters: 动 (6 strokes), 画 (8 strokes). That is 14 strokes in total.
Is 动画 an HSK word?
Yes. 动画 is on the HSK 6 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.
How is 动画 written in traditional Chinese?
In traditional characters, 动画 is written 動畫.
What is the difference between 动画 and 动漫?
动画 means animation that moves on screen. 动漫 (dòngmàn) combines 动画 and 漫画 (mànhuà, comics), so it covers both animation and comics, often in the context of Japanese anime and manga culture.
Can 动画 be used for an animated GIF or effect on a computer?
Yes. In tech contexts 动画 can mean an animation effect, such as 动画效果 (dònghuà xiàoguǒ, animation effect) in slides or apps. An animated image is often called 动图 (dòngtú).