Yeti sightings were anything but rare this weekend — if a fluffy, digital version of that creature counts.

Universal’s “Abominable,” an animated family movie that revolves around a young abominable snow-thing, opened to a solid $20.9 million in domestic ticket sales this weekend. It comfortably outperformed every other movie in theaters.

A creation of DreamWorks Animation and China’s Pearl Studio, “Abominable” tells the story of Yi (Chloe Bennet), a tween who discovers a yeti living on the roof of her family’s Shanghai apartment building. The plot involves Yi’s attempts to return the yeti to its home, with the help of her friends Jin (Tenzing Trainor) and Peng (Albert Tsai). They have to work against both a zoologist (Sarah Paulson) and Burnish (Eddie Izzard), a villain with deep pockets and a taste for exotic creatures.

“Abominable,” a rare big-studio animated movie with Chinese characters voiced mainly by Asian-Americans, does not have a long roster of celebrity vocal talent to help sell tickets. That makes its solid sales more impressive. Reviews were generally favorable; it currently holds an 80 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In his review for The New York Times, Glenn Kenny called the movie “exceptionally watchable and amiable.”