Chinese symbol for “cable”
电缆
diàn lǎn
Traditional: 電纜
(electric) cable
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cable is 电缆 (diàn lǎn), defined as: (electric) cable.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “cable”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缆 (纜) | lǎn | cable; hawser |
| 缆绳 (纜繩) | lǎn shéng | cable; hawser |
| 缆线 (纜線) | lǎn xiàn | cable |
| 线缆 (線纜) | xiàn lǎn | cable; wire |
| 缆索 (纜索) | lǎn suǒ | cable; hawser |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 电缆.
| 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 |
| 缆车 (纜車) | lǎn chē | cable car |
| 光缆 (光纜) | guāng lǎn | optical cable |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cable”.
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.