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电脑

diàn nǎo 4–3

computer

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 1 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
电 · 脑
Syllables
2
diàn nǎo
Frequency
Common
corpus count 946

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 电diàn5 strokesHSK 1 traditional 電electricity; electric; lightning
  • 脑nǎo10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 腦brain

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 电脑是新的。

    Diàn nǎo shì xīn de

    The computer is new.

  • 这是我的电脑。

    Zhè shì wǒ de diàn nǎo

    This is my computer.

  • 我正在用电脑。

    Wǒ zhèng zài yòng diàn nǎo

    I'm using the computer.

  • 我家没有电脑。

    Wǒ jiā méi yǒu diàn nǎo

    I don't have a computer at home.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 电脑. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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