picture / image / film / movie / photograph / reflection / shadow / trace

= + : Maud Younger (y) wants to watch a movie (影) inside of the engine ((e)ng3), but only men are allowed. She doesn't bounce back but instead, being a suffragist, puts on a long, fake Santa beard (彡). She enters to find that the whole movie consists of a still frame of a bonsai tree, a landscape in a pot. Back in the days, the script writers were not so experienced it seems.

影 character breakdown

"bristle" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 59)

= 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a fake Santa Clause beard.

= 丿 : In front of the anthill Sherlock Holmes wants to eat a banana, but he can't because of his fake Santa Clause beard.
surname Jing

= + : Mnemonic symbol: bonsai tree, 盆景 (pen2jing3), "landscape in a pot".

Joan of Arc's new hobby is to grow bonsai trees inside of the engine. She even performs a magical ritual to summon the sun, so that the bonsai can grow in its light. The sun is pretty annoyed as she just got up and only wears underpants, yet she already has to work.
(bound form) scenery / circumstance / situation / scene (of a play) / (literary) sunlight

= + : Mnemonic symbol: bonsai tree, 盆景 (pen2jing3), "landscape in a pot".

Joan of Arc's new hobby is to grow bonsai trees inside of the engine. She even performs a magical ritual to summon the sun, so that the bonsai can grow in its light. The sun is pretty annoyed as she just got up and only wears underpants, yet she already has to work.

Characters with 影 as component

影 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 影

moviedom / the world of movies / film circles
spirit wall (screen wall used to shield an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture)
movie queen; best actress award winner
(male) superstar of the silver screen; best actor award winner
copy (of a document) / book with model calligraphy for copying
cinema / movie theater

Sentences with 影

影 currently does not appear in any sentence.