IDENTITY
电diànelectricity
HSK 1Top 520
CORE MEANING
electricity
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.electricityHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 田field radical (tián)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- overlay compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿻日乚
- sun shape
- lightning tail
USAGE
Common words
电话diànhuàtelephone
电视diànshìTV
电脑diànnǎocomputer
Graded examples
我给他打电话。Wǒ gěi tā dǎ diànhuà.HSK1
I will call him.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 申
LEARNING
Memory aid
Lightning (乚) through a cloud (日) — electricity.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #520
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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