电影院
diàn yǐng yuàn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 電影院
A cinema: a building where films are shown to an audience on a big screen. It takes the measure word 家 (一家电影院); 电影 on its own is the film, and 看电影 'to see a film' is what you go there for.
Rạp chiếu phim: nơi chiếu phim cho khán giả xem trên màn ảnh lớn. Lượng từ là 家 (一家电影院); riêng 电影 là bộ phim, còn 看电影 là “xem phim”.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 电/電 = điện · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “电影院” mean?
A cinema: a building where films are shown to an audience on a big screen. It takes the measure word 家 (一家电影院); 电影 on its own is the film, and 看电影 'to see a film' is what you go there for. Literally: electric shadow hall
Is “电影院” formal or informal?
电影院 is generally neutral.