Memory phrase for the Kanji: 電


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Meaning

electricity

Pronunciation

DEN

Explanation

Top: rain (view out of a window with a cloud , that is raining =,=), below: 电 (rice field with an extra stroke as a lightning arrester/rod)

Mnemonic

When it rains in the rice field, you need a lightning arrester because of the electricity. (Or: Thunder 雷 [かみなり] with an arrester )

Radicals

rainView out of a window into the rain =,=. The upper line is a rain cloud.
dragon
kneeing person
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Vocabulary

 電卓  でんたく  electronic calculator
 電気  でんき  electricity, (electric) light
 電池  でんち  battery
 電球  でんきゅう  light bulb
 電柱  でんちゅう  telephone pole/telegraph pole/lightpole
 電荷  でんか  charge, electric charge
 電話帳  でんわちょう  telephone book, telephone directory
 電流  でんりゅう  electric current
 電車  でんしゃ  electric train


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