HSK 5 · Science

充电器 chōngdiànqì “battery charger” in Chinese

Traditional 充電器

What 充电器 means

  1. battery charger

How to say 充电器

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale充chōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale电diàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale器qì4th tone, falling

充电器 in a sentence

  1. 我的手机充电器坏了。

    Wǒ de shǒujī chōngdiànqì huài le.

    My phone charger is broken.

    Sentence #6183603 from Tatoeba

  2. 我把充电器的型号记下了。

    Wǒ bǎ chōngdiànqì de xínghào jì xià le.

    I’ve noted down the charger’s model number.

    Sentence #1860165 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 充电器 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 充 (chōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
充chōngsufficient; full
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 允to grant · yǔn
The character 电 (diàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
电diànlightning
  • 曰say · yuē
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

Memory aidSimplified from 電: lightning under the rain 雨: electricity.

The character 器 (qì) with each of its parts in a different colour
器qìdevice
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 犬dog · quǎn
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 充电器

充 6 strokes · 电 5 strokes · 器 16 strokes

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充电器 (chōngdiànqì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 充电器 (chōngdiànqì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 充电器

Words with 充

补充bǔchōng · to replenish充满chōngmǎn · to be full of充分chōngfèn · ample充当chōngdāng · to serve as扩充kuòchōng · to expand冒充màochōng · to pass oneself off as充沛chōngpèi · abundant充实chōngshí · rich充足chōngzú · sufficient

Words with 电

电脑diànnǎo · computer电视diànshì · television电影diànyǐng · movie电话diànhuà · telephone打电话dǎ diànhuà · to make a phone call电影院diànyǐngyuàn · cinema电diàn · electricity电梯diàntī · lift电子书diànzǐshū · e-book电子邮件diànzǐ yóujiàn · email

Words with 器

机器jīqì · machine乐器yuèqì · musical instrument器官qìguān · organ (of the body)仪器yíqì · instrument器材qìcái · equipment容器róngqì · container武器wǔqì · weapon

More words: Science & Technology

程序chéngxù · procedures电池diànchí · battery复制fùzhì · to duplicate机器jīqì · machine键盘jiànpán · keyboard直径zhíjìng · diameter指令zhǐlìng · instruction智能zhìnéng · smart

FAQs

充电器 (chōngdiànqì) means “battery charger”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it chōngdiànqì: chōng with a 1st tone, then diàn with a 4th tone, then qì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 充电器 is written 充電器. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chongdianqi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 充电器 from the suggestions. Typing chongdianqi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
充电器 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.