Fluentide
Chinese Vocabulary

电

electricity

电
diàn4th tone
Pinyin
diàn
Strokes
5
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 电

电 is written with 5 strokes. The animation replays automatically.

Usage

电在一个小东西里面 — the abstraction is given a location before it is given a name.

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电 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

你有电视。

You have a television.

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