電

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See also 电

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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 电

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

Han character [edit]

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

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

電 (simplified 电, Yale din6)

Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

電 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. lightning; electricity

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Compounds

Etymology [edit]

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).

Noun [edit]

電 (hiragana いなずま, romaji inazuma)

  1. lightning

Synonyms [edit]

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

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

Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

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

Compounds [edit]

Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

電 (*dhèn)

Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

電 (điện)

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