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電視

简 电视 · 繁 電視
Mandarin · pinyin diàn shì

Meanings

  1. television; TV
  2. Classifier: 臺 tái, 部 bù
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電
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視
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电
diàn · electricity; electric; lightning
视
shì · look at, inspect, observe, see
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

din6 si6

Cantonese word readings for 電視. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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din6 si6

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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noun

  1. television; TV; the small screen (the broadcasting medium)
  2. (countable) television set; TV set (Classifier: 臺／台 m; 部 m)
  3. (Putian Puxian Min, mahjong) white dragon

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