电 電
电電 in English
- lightning / electricity / electric (bound form) / to get (or give) an electric shock / phone call or telegram etc / to send via telephone or telegram etc
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 電, the traditional character: 电 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“上周你看电视了吗？”“没有，我没看。”
"Did you watch TV last week?" "No, I didn't."
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“我可以用电话吗？”“请便。”
"May I use the phone?" "Please feel free."
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“电话响了。”“我去接。”
"The phone is ringing." "I'll get it."
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“电话响了。”“我来接。”
"The phone is ringing." "I'll get it."
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23点我打电话给她的时候，她已经去睡觉了。
She had already gone to bed when I phoned her at 11:00 p.m.
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Pierre电脑里有很多盗版软件。
Pierre has a lot of pirated software on his computer.
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Tom昨天看了电视。
Tom watched TV yesterday.