My brother bought an electric guitar.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
电子
electronic
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
electronic
02
electron (particle physics)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 电子 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 电子 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom is an electrical engineer.
My father is an electric engineer.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 电子.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 电子.
Directly before
- 对电子1
- 一个电子1
- 个电子1
- 一名电子1
- 了电子1
Directly after
- 电子工程师3
- 电子信号1
- 电子吉他1
- 电子发票1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 电子
What does 电子 mean in Chinese?
电子 (diànzǐ) means electronic.
How do you pronounce 电子?
电子 is pronounced diànzǐ.
Is 电子 an HSK word?
电子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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