Chinese symbol for “email”
电子邮件
diàn zǐ yóu jiàn
Traditional: 電子郵件
email; measure word: 封 (fēng), 份 (fèn)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for email is 电子邮件 (diàn zǐ yóu jiàn), defined as: email; measure word: 封 (fēng), 份 (fèn).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “email”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 电邮 (電郵) | diàn yóu | email; abbr. for 电子邮件 (diàn zǐ yóu jiàn) |
| 邮件 (郵件) | yóu jiàn | mail; post |
| 伊妹儿 (伊妹兒) | yī mèi r | (loanword) email |
| 邮箱 (郵箱) | yóu xiāng | mailbox; post office box |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 电子邮件.
| 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 |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
| 儿子 (兒子) | ér zi | son |
| 邮件 (郵件) | yóu jiàn | mail; post |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | incident; event |
See also: Japanese symbol for “email”.
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.