电 — Chinese character
电
diàn
electricity; electric; lightning
- Pinyin
- diàn
- Radical
- 102 ⽥ (Field)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 曰 乚
- Formation
- ideographic — Simplified form of 電; lightning 申 from a storm cloud 雨
- Traditional
- 電
Common words with 电
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 电影 (電影) | diàn yǐng | movie; film; measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 电话 (電話) | diàn huà | telephone; measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 电视 (電視) | diàn shì | television; TV; 台 (tái),部 (bù) |
| 电子 (電子) | diàn zǐ | electronic; electron (particle physics) |
| 电脑 (電腦) | diàn nǎo | computer; 台 (tái) |
| 电视台 (電視台) | diàn shì tái | television station |
| 电视台 (電視臺) | diàn shì tái | variant of 电视台 (diàn shì tái) |
| 电力 (電力) | diàn lì | electrical power; electricity |
| 电台 (電臺) | diàn tái | transmitter-receiver; broadcasting station |
| 打电话 (打電話) | dǎ diàn huà | to make a telephone call |
| 电视剧 (電視劇) | diàn shì jù | TV series; TV drama |
| 电信 (電信) | diàn xìn | telecommunications |
English words written with 电
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.