放映员

放映員

fàngyìngyuán

noun #35,679

Meanings

1 projectionist
2 film projection operator

Characters

to release; to project

to reflect; to project (an image)

person; member; -er (professional suffix)

Examples

电影院的放映员需要培训。

Diànyǐngyuàn de fàngyìngyuán xūyào péixùn.

Cinema projectionists need training.

他年轻时当过放映员。

Tā niánqīng shí dāngguo fàngyìngyuán.

When he was young, he worked as a projectionist.

Tips

culture

放映 ('to project/screen a film') + 员 ('-er, professional suffix'). In China the rural 放映员 (mobile projectionist) was a celebrated socialist-era role: traveling village to village showing films on portable 16mm equipment. The 2018 Chinese film 《我和我的祖国》 features a memorable 放映员 vignette.

Stroke Order

放 fàng

映 yìng

员 yuán