電
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See also 电
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[edit] Etymology
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.
[edit] Han character
電 (radical 173 雨+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一月田山 (MBWU), four-corner 10716, composition ⿱雨电)
[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
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電 (simplified 电, Yale din6)
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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
電 (hiragana いなずま, romaji inazuma)
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電 (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)
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電 (simplified 电, pinyin diàn (dian4), Wade-Giles tien4)
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電 (*dhèn)
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電 (điện)
