Traditional: 拍攝
拍摄 (pāi shè) means “to take (a picture); to shoot (a film)”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word (traditional 拍攝) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
他们正在拍摄一部新电影。
Tāmen zhèngzài pāishè yī bù xīn diànyǐng.
They are filming a new movie.
Updated: 2026-07-18