diàn

Traditional: 電

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Translation

electricity; electric (in 电话, 电影, 电脑)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 电

Examples

Let's watch a film together tonight.

Please give me a call.

This is my phone number.

The electricity went out suddenly last night.

My phone is out of battery.

电 (diàn) means electricity and serves as the electric- prefix in modern technology words like 电话 (telephone), 电影 (film), and 电脑 (computer).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 电.

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This word is part of lesson 101.