电台

Character by character

• 电diàn5 strokesHSK 1 traditional 電electricity; electric; lightning
• 台tái5 strokesHSK 3 traditional 檯platform; unit; term of address

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

Example sentences

• 他上电台了。

  Tā shàng diàn tái le

  He is on the radio.

  Listen

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 电台. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 电话diàn huàHSK 1

  telephone; phone call; phone number

• 电影diàn yǐngHSK 1

  movie; film

• 台táiHSK 3

  platform; stage; terrace; stand; support; station; broadcasting station; classifier for vehicles or machines

• 电视diàn shìHSK 1

  television; TV

• 电脑diàn nǎoHSK 1

  computer

• 电diànHSK 1

  lightning; 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 huàHSK 1

  to make a telephone call

• 电子diàn zǐ

  electronic; electron (particle physics)

• 舞台wǔ táiHSK 3

  (lit. and fig.) stage; arena

• 电力diàn lìHSK 6

  electrical power; electricity

• 电梯diàn tīHSK 4

  elevator; escalator

• 电视台diàn shì táiHSK 3

  television station

• 电池diàn chíHSK 5

  battery

• 电视剧diàn shì jùHSK 3

  TV series; TV drama

• 平台píng táiHSK 6

  platform; terrace; flat-roofed building

• 台上tái shàngHSK 4

  on stage

• 电源diàn yuánHSK 4

  electric power source

• 上台shàng táiHSK 6

  to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater)

• 闪电shǎn diànHSK 4

  lightning

• 来电lái diànHSK 7

  incoming telephone call (or telegram); to phone in; to send in a telegram; to have an instant attraction to sb; (of electricity, after an outage) to come back

• 电视机diàn shì jīHSK 1

  television set

• 阳台yáng táiHSK 4

  balcony; porch

• 台阶tái jiēHSK 4

  steps; flight of steps; step (over obstacle); fig. way out of an embarrassing situation; bench (geology)

• 柜台guì táiHSK 7

  sales counter; front desk; bar; (of markets, medicines etc) OTC (over-the-counter)