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电台 diàntái “radio station” in Chinese

Traditional 電臺

What 电台 means

  1. radio station
  2. broadcasting station
  3. transmitter-receiver

Measure word 个 gè or 家 jiā · 一个电台 yí ge diàntái

How to say 电台

  • 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 second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale台tái2nd tone, rising

电台 in a sentence

  1. 他上电台了。

    Tā shàng diàntái le.

    He was on the radio.

    Sentence #812339 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你最喜欢的电台是什么？

    Nǐ zuì xǐhuan de diàntái shì shénme?

    What’s your favourite radio station?

    Sentence #6109310 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 电台没有提到这个事故。

    Diàntái méiyǒu tídào zhè ge shìgù.

    The radio station didn’t mention the accident.

    Sentence #766812 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 电台 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 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 台 (tái) with each of its parts in a different colour
台táiyou
  • 厶private · sī
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 电台

电 5 strokes · 台 5 strokes

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

Words related to 电台

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 台

台tái · measure word for machines (a TV台阶táijiē · steps阳台yángtái · balcony柜台guìtái · sales counter台风táifēng · typhoon

More words: Places & Geography

当地dāngdì · local岛屿dǎoyǔ · islands大厦dàshà · large building地区dìqū · region隔壁gébì · next door工厂gōngchǎng · factory公寓gōngyù · apartment building广场guǎngchǎng · public square

FAQs

电台 (diàntái) means “radio station” or “broadcasting station”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it diàntái: diàn with a 4th tone, then tái with a 2nd 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, 电台 is written 電臺. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè) or 家 (jiā). For example, one radio station is 一个电台 (yí ge diàntái).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type diantai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 电台 from the suggestions. Typing diantai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
电台 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.