電子

See also: 电子

Chinese

electric; electricity; electrical
 
child; son; (noun suff.); small thing; midnight; 11 p.m.-1 a.m.; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch
trad. (電子) 電 子
simp. (电子) 电 子

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 電 (でん)子 (し) (denshi, “electron”)

Pronunciation

Adjective

電子

  1. (attributive) electronic
    電子元件 / 电子元件  ―  diànzǐ yuánjiàn  ―  electronic component
    電子教科書 / 电子教科书  ―  diànzǐ jiàokēshū  ―  electronic textbook

Derived terms

See also

Noun

電子

  1. electron (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 粒)
    一對電子 / 一对电子  ―  yī duì diànzǐ  ―  a pair of electrons

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
電 子
でん
Grade: 2		 し
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

Appears to be a coinage in Japan from Middle Chinese-derived components, as a compound of 電 (den, “lightning, electricity”) +‎ 子 (shi, “small thing, particle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

電子 (hiragana でんし, rōmaji denshi)

  1. an electron

Usage notes

In compounds or when followed by the possessive particle の, this can be translated as either electron or electronic. Note, however, that in both cases this word in Japanese is still a noun.

Compounds

Descendants

See also

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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