电 diàn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 曰 — to speak
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
电视台
diànshìtái
television station
Characters in this word
视 shì
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 见 — to see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- Made of
- 礻 spirit 见 to see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 电视台很近。 Diànshìtái hěn jìn. The television station is very close.
- 我在电视台工作。 Wǒ zài diànshìtái gōngzuò. I work at a television station.
- 电视台在那儿。 Diànshìtái zài nàr. The television station is over there.
Related words
- 打电话 dǎdiànhuà to make a phone call
- 电 diàn electricity
- 电话 diànhuà telephone; phone call
- 电脑 diànnǎo computer
- 电视 diànshì television, TV
- 电视机 diànshìjī TV set
- 电影 diànyǐng film, movie
- 电影院 diànyǐngyuàn cinema
- 电视剧 diànshìjù television series
- 电台 diàntái radio station
- 电子邮件 diànzǐyóujiàn email
- 充电 chōngdiàn to charge