Chinese symbol for “telecommunications”
电信
diàn xìn
Traditional: 電信
telecommunications
The closest CC-CEDICT match for telecommunications is 电信 (diàn xìn), defined as: telecommunications.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “telecommunications”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 电信.
| 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 |
| 信息 | xìn xī | information; news; message |
| 相信 | xiāng xìn | to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true |
See also: Japanese symbol for “telecommunications”.
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.