Memory phrase for the character: 電

電

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Meaning

electricity

Pronunciation

DEN

Explanation

 Top: rain 雨 (View out of a window 冂 with a cloud 一 from which it is raining =,=), below: 电 (rice field 田 with an extra stroke 乚 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 乚)

Radicals

雨 rainView out of a window 冂 into the rain =,=. The upper line is a rain cloud.
竜 dragonTraditionally this: 龍 was used for dragon.
乚 kneeing personThe use of this radical is not uniform. It is understood as a lightning rod, hook or kneeling person.




 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
電流 でんりゅう  electric current
電車 でんしゃ  electric train
電話 でんわ  telephone

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