电

電traditional

HSK 3#1027 by frequencyradical 曰

diàn["n"]

electricity; electric (bound form); lightning; to get (or give) an electric shock; phone call or telegram etc; to send via telephone or telegram etc

Examples

电很有用。

Electricity is very useful.

电脑死机了。

My computer has frozen.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.