片子 piānzi film
film; movie; film reel; phonograph record; X-ray image
How to remember 片子: 片 slice + 子 child = film.
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How it is used
- Colloquial word for a film / movie, or a medical scan - 拍片子 (pāi piānzi) to shoot a movie or to take an X-ray.
- Note the reading piānzi (not piànzi) in this sense; context tells you if it's cinema or a hospital image.
- Casual register; in film talk it also covers a 'reel' or a specific movie.