Chinese lesson: Electricity plus Brain means Computer

Hello everyone!!
Welcome to another chinese lesson. Chinese language is trendy now as China is 2nd largest economy in the world!!!
Today I will show you how chinese people create new characters by combining old characters. These characters normally easy to remember and understand logic of compounding them.

Words

1. 电影 [ diàn yǐng] - movie or a film. 影 means picture, image, shadow or photograph.
2. 电视 [ diàn shì ] - TV or television. 视 means to look at, to inspect and it consist of 礻 which means a spirit, and it gives just pronunciation to the character and 见 that means to see, so it gives a meaning to the character.

Phrases

你常常用电脑吗？ - Do you often use computer?

你看过这部电影吗？- Have you seen this movie?

Homework: learn new words and practice writing them.