About
The character 帧 (zhēn), with its traditional form 幀, is a phono-semantic compound. Its left-side semantic radical 巾 (jīn) originally meant a piece of cloth or a scroll, while the right-side component 贞/貞 (zhēn) provides the pronunciation. This cloth radical reflects the character's origin as a measure word for items mounted on textile scrolls, such as paintings and calligraphic works. As media evolved, the character extended its meaning to become the standard term for a "frame" in film, video, and computer graphics. Today, it is primarily used in digital contexts to denote a single image within a sequence, preserving its core function as a quantifier from scrolls to frame rates.
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这帧画面很清晰。
视频播放很流畅，没有掉帧。
动画是由一帧帧图像组成的。
游戏的每一帧都渲染得很精美。
我们需要提高视频的帧速率。
这段录像的每一帧都经过了分析。
编码器优化后，压缩效率提升了，但帧质量保持不变。
由于实时渲染的计算量巨大，开发者必须精细地平衡帧时间与画面细节。