Chinese word

裁剪

Pronunciation

Pinyincái jiǎn

Meaning

  • verbcrop

Example

请把这张图片裁剪成正方形。qǐng bǎ zhè zhāng tú piàn cái jiǎn chéng zhèng fāng xíng

Please crop this image to a square.

Illustration for 裁剪 (crop)

More examples

他在手机里把头像裁剪好了。tā zài shǒu jī lǐ bǎ tóu xiàng cái jiǎn hǎo le

He finished cropping his profile picture on his phone.

Core concept

A controlled cut narrows or reshapes part of something while preserving the useful remainder.

Common phrases

  • 裁剪 头像cái jiǎn tóu xiàng

    crop a profile picture

  • 裁剪 成合适大小cái jiǎn chéng hé shì dà xiǎo

    crop to a suitable size

Similar words

截取jié qǔ: Cutting out and removing a needed section from a whole.
剪裁jiǎn cái: Cutting fabric into pieces or shapes for making clothes.
剪jiǎn: Using scissors or a similar tool to cut something.

Definition in Chinese

将整体或材料的一部分切去或缩减，以得到所需的形状、长度或构成，既可指物理剪切也可指对图片、视频等的裁切。jiāng zhéng tǐ huò cái liào de yí bù fèn qiē qù huò suō jiǎn yǐ dé dào suǒ xū de xíng zhuàng cháng dù huò gòu chéng jì kě zhǐ wù lǐ jiǎn qiē yě kě zhǐ duì tú piàn shì pín děng de cái qiē

Word origin

裁 (cái, "to cut or tailor") + 剪 (jiǎn, "to cut with scissors") forms 裁剪 (cáijiǎn, "to crop or trim"), linking the shaping of material with the action of cutting.

Usage tips

  • In image-editing contexts, this verb can describe changing the frame of a picture even when no pixels are physically cut, which connects its physical and digital senses.

Other meanings

  • trimverb
  • cut outverb

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