电脑電腦 in English

Measure word

• 台 tái typhoon attested
• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use

Character breakdown

• 电電 diàn lightning
• 脑腦 nǎo brain

Stroke order

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

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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.

• 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

• Pierre电脑里有很多盗版软件。

  Pierre has a lot of pirated software on his computer.

• 上个月我买了一台新电脑。

  I bought a new computer last month.

• 会用电脑是一个好处。

  It is an advantage to be able to use a computer.

• 你们会用电脑是为了学习，不是为了玩游戏。

  You’ll use the computer for studying, and not for playing games.

• 你们需要重新启动电脑。

  You need to reboot your computer.

• 你必须重新启动你的电脑。

  You must reboot your computer.

• 你有两台电脑吗？

  Do you have two computers?

• 你的新电脑运行得好吗？

  Does your new computer run well?

All example sentences with 电脑