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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic  (rain) + phonetic 

The in this character is a variant/corruption of , used phonetically. Compare the Old Chinese pronunciations: 申 *l̥in, 電 *lˤin-s.

[edit] Han character

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

  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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(simplified , Yale din6)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. lightning; electricity

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[edit] Compounds

[edit] Etymology

Compound of いな (ina) +‎ つま (tsuma, spouse). From an old folk belief that lightning joined with the rice plant to bring it to seed. The tsuma becomes zuma in this compound due to rendaku (連濁).

[edit] Noun

(hiragana いなずま, romaji inazuma)

  1. lightning

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[edit] Hanja

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


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*dhèn)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(điện)

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