Chinese symbol for “television”
电视
diàn shì
Traditional: 電視
television; TV; 台 (tái),部 (bù)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for television is 电视 (diàn shì), defined as: television; TV; 台 (tái),部 (bù).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “television”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 电视.
| 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 |
| 视频 (視頻) | shì pín | video |
| 重视 (重視) | zhòng shì | to attach importance to sth; to value |
| 视为 (視為) | shì wéi | to view as; to see as |
See also: Japanese symbol for “television”.
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.