Chinese symbol for “battery”
电池
diàn chí
Traditional: 電池
battery; electric cell; 节 (jié),组 (zǔ)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for battery is 电池 (diàn chí), defined as: battery; electric cell; 节 (jié),组 (zǔ).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “battery”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 殴打 (毆打) | ōu dǎ | to beat up; to come to blows |
| 电瓶 (電瓶) | diàn píng | accumulator; battery (for storing electricity) |
| 炮台 (砲臺) | pào tái | fort; battery |
| 铅酸蓄电池 (鉛酸蓄電池) | qiān suān xù diàn chí | lead-acid accumulator; battery (e.g. in car) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 电池.
| 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 |
| 游泳池 | yóu yǒng chí | swimming pool |
| 泳池 | yǒng chí | swimming pool |
See also: Japanese symbol for “battery”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.