Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 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

rain(View 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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