電
See also: 电
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TranslingualEdit
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Han characterEdit
電 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一月田山 (MBWU), four-corner 10716, composition ⿱⻗⿻日乚(GTJKV) or ⿱⻗⿻日㇄(H))
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 1373, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42253
- Dae Jaweon: page 1882, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4060, character 1
- Unihan data for U+96FB
ChineseEdit
| trad. | 電 | |
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| simp. | 电 | |
Glyph originEdit
| Historical forms of the character 電 | |
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| Western Zhou | Warring States |
| Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'iːns): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 申 (OC *hlin); also ideogrammic (會意): 雨 + 申 (“lightning”).
EtymologyEdit
Sino-Tibetan or area word; compare Proto-Mien *liŋ (“lightning”), Chepang प्लीङ्हसा (pliŋh‑, “to flash; to shine brightly”) (Benedict, 1976; Schuessler, 2007).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
電
- (uncountable) lightning
- (uncountable) electric power or energy; electricity [from late 19th c.]
- electric; electrical
- (dialectal, countable) battery (Classifier: 粒 c; 嚿 c)
- (colloquial, uncountable) romantic attraction; chemistry
- Short for 電話／电话 (diànhuà, “telephone; phone call”).
- Short for 電報／电报 (diànbào, “telegram”).
- Short for 電臺／电台 (diàntái, “broadcasting station; radio station”).
- (transitive) to give an electric shock to
- (figuratively, of a person) energy
- to make a telephone call
- to send a telegram
- † fast; speedy
SynonymsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 電
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DescendantsEdit
- → Bouyei: dianq (“electricity”)
- → Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈ (ṫaen¹, “electricity”)
- → Tai Nüa: ᥖᥦᥢᥱ (tǎen, “electricity”)
- → Zhuang: den (“electricity”)
ReferencesEdit
- “電”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
電
ReadingsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Compounds
- 電圧 (den'atsu): voltage
- 電気 (denki): electricity
- 電球 (denkyū): light bulb
- 電子 (denshi): electron
- 電磁界 (denjikai): electromagnetic field
- 電子計算機 (denshi keisanki): computer
- 電車 (densha): electric train
- 電束 (densoku): electric flux
- 電卓 (dentaku): electric calculator
- 電灯 (dentō): light, lamp
- 電流 (denryū): electric current
- 電力 (denryoku): electric power
- 電話 (denwa): a telephone
- 発電 (hatsuden): electric power generation
- 雷電 (raiden): thunder and lightning
- 電撃 (dengeki): shock
DefinitionsEdit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 電 |
| いなずま Grade: 2 |
| kun’yomi |
| For pronunciation and definitions of 電 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term, 電, is an alternative (rare) spelling of the above term.) |
KoreanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Chinese 電 (MC denH).
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| Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 | 뗜〮 (Yale: ttyén) | |
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| Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[2] | 번〮게〮 (Yale: pénkéy) | 뎐〯 (Yale: tyěn) |
PronunciationEdit
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɘ(ː)n]
- Phonetic hangul: [전(ː)]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
HanjaEdit
電 (eumhun 번개 전 (beon'gae jeon))
- Hanja form? of 전 (“electricity; electric”). [affix]
CompoundsEdit
Compounds
ReferencesEdit
- 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]
VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
電: Hán Việt readings: điện[1][2][3][4]
- chữ Hán form of điện (“electricity”).