电视電視 in English

Measure word

• 台 tái typhoon attested
• 部 bù ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc attested

Character breakdown

• 电電 diàn lightning
• 视視 shì (literary, or bound form) to look at

Stroke order

How it used to be written

电

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

视

These are the forms of 視, the traditional character: 视 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 22 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• “上周你看电视了吗？”“没有，我没看。”

  "Did you watch TV last week?" "No, I didn't."

• Tom昨天看了电视。

  Tom watched TV yesterday.

• 为什么电视开着？

  Why is the television on?

• 买新的电视不会让你幸福。

  Buying a new TV won't make you happy.

• 他在看电视。

  He is watching TV.

• 他常常上电视。

  He often appears on TV.

• 他常常出现在电视上。

  He often appears on TV.

• 他昨晚上电视了。

  He appeared on TV last night.

All example sentences with 电视