電視

Chinese

electric; electricity; electrical to look at; to regard; to inspect
trad. (電視) 電 視
simp. (电视) 电 视

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 電 (でん)視 (し) (denshi, “television”), based on 電 (でん)話 (わ) (denwa, “telephone”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

電視

  1. television; TV; the small screen
    上電視 / 上电视  ―  shàng diànshì  ―  to be on TV
    液晶電視 / 液晶电视  ―  yèjīng diànshì  ―  liquid crystal TV
    我喜歡看電視。 / 我喜欢看电视。  ―  Wǒ xǐhuān kàn diànshì.  ―  I like to watch TV.
    我好鍾意睇電視。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    我好钟意睇电视。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Ngo5 hou2 zung1 ji3 tai2 din6 si6. [Jyutping]
    I like to watch TV.
  2. television set; TV set

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ Tatsuo Miyajima, “Terebi” to “denshi”, in 西学東漸と東亜近代新語新概念, 2008.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
電 視
でん
Grade: 2		 し
Grade: 6
on’yomi

Noun

電視 (hiragana でんし, rōmaji denshi)

  1. (obsolete) television
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