Chinese symbol for “electromagnetism”
电磁
diàn cí
Traditional: 電磁
electromagnetism
The closest CC-CEDICT match for electromagnetism is 电磁 (diàn cí), defined as: electromagnetism.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “electromagnetism”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 电磁学 (電磁學) | diàn cí xué | electromagnetism |
| 电磁理论 (電磁理論) | diàn cí lǐ lùn | electromagnetism; electromagnetic theory |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 电磁.
| 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 |
| 磁场 (磁場) | cí chǎng | magnetic field |
| 磁带 (磁帶) | cí dài | magnetic tape; 盘 (pán),盒 (hé) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “electromagnetism”.
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.