電
diàn
electricity, electric; lightning
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 雨
- HSK
- —
- Tone
- 4
Simplified form: 电
Stroke order
Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 电, the simplified form of 電. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.
Example sentences
电很有用。
Diàn hěn yǒu yòng
Electricity is very useful.
Shadow打电话。
Dǎ diàn huà
Make a call.
Shadow我在打电话。
Wǒ zài dǎ diàn huà
I'm on the phone.
Shadow接电话。
Jiē diàn huà
Answer the phone.
Shadow
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words containing 电
- 电话diàn huà 4–4 telephone; phone call; phone number
- 电影diàn yǐng 4–3 movie; film
- 电视diàn shì 4–4 television; TV
- 电脑diàn nǎo 4–3 computer
- 电diàn 4lightning; electricity; electric (bound form); to get (or give) an electric shock; phone call or telegram etc; to send via telephone or telegram etc
- 打电话dǎ diàn huà 3–4–4to make a telephone call
- 电视机diàn shì jī 4–4–1television set
- 电影院diàn yǐng yuàn 4–3–4cinema; movie theater
- 电子diàn zǐ 4–3 electronic; electron (particle physics)
- 电梯diàn tī 4–1 elevator; escalator
- 电视台diàn shì tái 4–4–2television station
- 电视剧diàn shì jù 4–4–4TV series; TV drama