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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
电流
an electric current
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
an electric current
02
(old) current intensity
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 电流 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 电流 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
An electric current can generate magnetism.
The discovery that electric currents can be produced by magnetism is extremely important in the field of electricity.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 电流.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 电流.
Directly before
- 生产电流1
- 高压电流1
Directly after
- 电流可以1
- 电流的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 电流
What does 电流 mean in Chinese?
电流 (diànliú) means an electric current.
How do you pronounce 电流?
电流 is pronounced diànliú.
Is 电流 an HSK word?
电流 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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