電

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 雨 (“‘rain’”) + 申 (“‘lightning’”)

[edit] Han character

電 (radical 173 雨+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一月田山 (MBWU), four-corner 1071₆, composition ⿱雨电)

1. electricity, electric, electro
2. lightning

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1373, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42253
• Dae Jaweon: page 1882, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4060, character 1
• Unihan data for U+96FB

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[edit] Cantonese

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電 (simplified 电, Yale din6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

電 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: でん (den), てん (ten)
• Kun: いなずま (inazuma)

[edit] Compounds

• 電話 (でんわ, denwa): a telephone
• 電話を切る (でんわをきる, denwa o kiru): to hang up
• 電気 (でんき, denki): electricity
• 電流 (でんりゅう, denryū): electric current
• 電圧 (でんあつ, den'atsu): voltage
• 電力 (でんりょく, denryoku): electric power
• 電卓 (でんたく, dentaku): electric calculator
• 電車 (でんしゃ, densha): electric train
• 電灯 (でんとう, dentō): light, lamp
• 電燈 (でんとう, dentō): light, lamp
• 電球 (でんきゅう, denkyū): light bulb
• 発電 (はつでん, hatsuden): electric power generation
• 電磁界 (でんじかい, denjikai): electromagnetic field
• 電子 (でんし, denshi): electron

  電子計算機: computer

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

電 (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

電 (simplified 电, pinyin diàn (dian4), Wade-Giles tien⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 電梯
• 電話
• 電腦

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

電 (*dhèn)

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[edit] Vietnamese

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電 (điện)