電 (diàn)
Electricity; electric; movie/phone (in compounds)
How 電 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 雨 — rain
- Traditional
- 電
- Simplified
- 电
Common words using 電
- 電信 diànxìn
- telecommunications
- 電影 diànyǐng
- movie; film; CL:部[bu4],片[pian4],幕[mu4],場|场[chang3]
- 電腦 diànnǎo
- computer; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- 電視 diànshì
- television; TV; CL:臺|台[tai2],個|个[ge4]
- 電視劇 diànshìjù
- TV play; soap opera; CL:部[bu4]
- 電話 diànhuà
- telephone; CL:部[bu4]; phone call
- 來電 láidiàn
- incoming telegram or telephone call; your telegram, telephone call, or message; to send a telegram or make a telephone call here (i.e. to the speaker)
- 供電 gōngdiàn
- to supply electricity
- 停電 tíngdiàn
- power cut
- 充電 chōngdiàn
- to recharge batteries; fig. to rest and recuperate
- 充電器 chōngdiànqì
- battery charger
- 家電 jiādiàn
- household electric appliance; abbr. for 家用電器|家用电器
電 in a sentence
我的手機快沒電了。
Wǒ de shǒujī kuài méi diàn le.
“My phone is almost out of battery.”
How common is 電?
電 is the 230th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 58.7% of all running text.
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