Chinese symbol for “diode”

二极管

èr jí guǎn

Traditional: 二極管

diode

The closest CC-CEDICT match for diode is 二极管 (èr jí guǎn), defined as: diode.

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Characters and stroke order

二 èr

two; twice

radical 7 ⼆ · 2 strokes

极 jí

extreme, top; final, furthest, utmost; pole

radical 75 ⽊ · 7 strokes

管 guǎn

tube, pipe, duct; to manage, to control

radical 118 ⽵ · 14 strokes

Traditional forms

極 jí

Related words

Other words that share a character with 二极管.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
第二	dì èr	second; number two
第二次	dì èr cì	the second time; the second occurrence
第二天	dì èr tiān	next day; the morrow
二级 (二級)	èr jí	grade 2; second class
十二	shí èr	twelve; 12
二十	èr shí	twenty; 20
积极 (積極)	jī jí	active; energetic
极端 (極端)	jí duān	extreme
管理	guǎn lǐ	to supervise; to manage

See also: Japanese symbol for “diode”.

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.