电 diàn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 曰 — to speak
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
电讯
diànxùn
telecommunications; news dispatch
Characters in this word
讯 xùn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 卂 to fly rapidly
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 灾区的电讯一度中断，外界只能通过卫星电话获取零星消息。 Zāiqū de diànxùn yídù zhōngduàn, wàijiè zhǐ néng tōngguò wèixīng diànhuà huòqǔ língxīng xiāoxi. Telecommunications in the disaster area were interrupted for a time, and the outside world could only obtain scattered information by satellite phone.
- 这条电讯很短，只说了船已经平安到港。 Zhè tiáo diànxùn hěn duǎn, zhǐ shuō le chuán yǐjīng píng'ān dào gǎng. This dispatch was very short and only said the ship had arrived safely in port.
- 记者通过电讯把现场的消息传回了报社。 Jìzhě tōngguò diànxùn bǎ xiànchǎng de xiāoxi chuán huí le bàoshè. The reporter sent news from the scene back to the newspaper by wire.
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
- 电视台 diànshìtái television station
- 电台 diàntái radio station
- 电子邮件 diànzǐyóujiàn email