拍片子

pāipiànzi

phrase #36,708

Meanings

1 to shoot a film
2 to make a movie
3 to take an X-ray / medical scan

Characters

to shoot; to slap

Examples

他这个月在横店拍片子。

Tā zhège yuè zài Héngdiàn pāi piànzi.

He's shooting a film in Hengdian this month.

医生让我去拍片子检查一下。

Yīshēng ràng wǒ qù pāi piànzi jiǎnchá yíxià.

The doctor told me to go get an X-ray.

Tips

usage

Colloquial phrase with two contexts: filmmaking (片子 = film/movie) and medical imaging (片子 = X-ray plate). In a hospital, '去拍个片子' nearly always means an X-ray, CT, or MRI scan; on a film set, it's filming.

Stroke Order

拍 pāi

片 piàn

子 zǐ