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Mythic Mandarin

电钻 (diàn zuàn): meaning and stroke order

电钻 (diàn zuàn) means electric drill.

电钻

Simplified
电钻
Traditional
電鑽
Pinyin
diàn zuàn

Stroke order of 电钻

电

  • diàn lightning; electricity
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 電

Stroke by stroke

钻

  • zuàn variant of 鑽|钻[zuan4]
  • zuān to drill; to bore
  • zuàn drill; auger; diamond
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鑚

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 电钻

  1. diàn zuàn Traditional 電鑽
    • electric drill

Radicals of the characters

电
Radical 田 (Kangxi radical 102) · 5 strokes · built from 日 and 乚
钻
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 钅 on the left, 占 on the right

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.

电钻 in our stories

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  • 他们的想法是做一个手机软件，让邻居之间可以互相借东西：电钻、梯子、帐篷……

    tāmen de xiǎngfǎ shì zuò yí gè shǒujī ruǎnjiàn ràng línjū zhījiān kěyǐ hùxiāng jiè dōngxi diànzuàn tīzi zhàngpeng

    Their idea was a phone app that let neighbours lend each other things: drills, ladders, tents…

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

Stories using 电钻

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).