帧

幀

zhēn

noun #16,440

Meanings

1 frame (of video, animation, or data)
2 classifier for paintings, photographs, etc.

Characters

帧

zhēn

frame; classifier for pictures

Examples

这个游戏每秒六十帧。

Zhège yóuxì měi miǎo liùshí zhēn.

This game runs at sixty frames per second.

这段视频有几帧出现了模糊。

Zhè duàn shìpín yǒu jǐ zhēn chūxiàn le móhu.

A few frames in this video are blurry.

Tips

usage

In gaming and tech contexts, 帧率 (zhēnlǜ) means 'frame rate' and 每秒帧数 (měi miǎo zhēnshù) is 'frames per second (FPS).' Very common in Chinese gaming communities.

Components

radical

巾 jīn

cloth; kerchief

Left cloth radical — pictograph of a hanging piece of fabric. Anchors the meaning: 帧 originally referred to a single sheet of silk used to mount a painting or scroll, which is why it became the classifier for paintings and photographs. Same family: 帆 sail, 布 cloth, 帽 hat, 幅 width-of-cloth.

phonetic

贞 zhēn

loyal; chaste

Right 贞 supplies the sound zhēn with no drift. 贞 itself originally depicted divination by hot bronze, later 'firm, chaste'; here it carries no virtue meaning, just the phonetic. The modern computing sense — a single video frame — was coined as a calque using this old 'mounted picture' character.

Stroke Order

帧 zhēn

帧