电 (diàn): meaning and stroke order
电 (diàn) means lightning, electricity, electric (bound form), to get (or give) an electric shock.
电
- Simplified
- 电
- Traditional
- 電
- Pinyin
- diàn
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Stroke order of 电
电
- diàn lightning; electricity
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 電
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Meaning of 电
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diàn
Traditional 電
- lightning
- electricity
- electric (bound form)
- to get (or give) an electric shock
- phone call or telegram etc
- to send via telephone or telegram etc
Radical and structure
- 电
- Radical 田 (Kangxi radical 102) · 5 strokes · built from 日 and 乚
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 电
- 电话 diàn huà telephone; CL:部[bu4]
- 电脑 diàn nǎo computer; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- 电影 diàn yǐng movie; film; CL:部[bu4],片[pian4],場|场[chang3]
- 电钻 diàn zuàn electric drill
- 心电图 xīn diàn tú electrocardiogram (ECG)
- 电解质 diàn jiě zhì electrolyte
- 充电器 chōng diàn qì battery charger
- 手电筒 shǒu diàn tǒng flashlight; electric hand torch
- 电视 diàn shì television; TV; CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4]
- 电梯 diàn tī elevator; escalator
电 in our stories
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可是会议开始前五分钟，他的电脑突然没电了，充电器也忘在了酒店。
kěshì huìyì kāishǐ qián wǔ fēnzhōng tā de diànnǎo tūrán méi diàn le chōngdiànqì yě wàng zài le jiǔdiàn
But five minutes before the meeting his laptop suddenly died, and he had left the charger at the hotel.
From the story Three circles HSK 4
Stories using 电
- Three circles HSK 4
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).