Battery in Chinese (Mandarin): 电池 (diànchí)

电池
diànchí
battery
- Simplified
- 电池
- Traditional
- 電池
- Pinyin
- diànchí
- Typed as
- dianchi
Use it in a sentence
没电了,快换电池。
沒電了,快換電池。
It has no power. Let's change the battery.
The characters in 电池
电 / 電
Electricity; also lightning. 雨 (rain) was on top of its old form.
5 strokes
池
A pool or pond. 氵 (water) is on the left.
6 strokes
电池 is an "electricity pool": it holds power the way a pond holds water. Out of power is 没电了 (méi diàn le).
More examples with 电池
玩具需要电池。
玩具需要電池。
Wánjù xūyào diànchí.
The toy needs batteries.
遥控器的电池没电了。
遙控器的電池沒電了。
Yáokòngqì de diànchí méi diàn le.
The remote's batteries are dead.
How to write 电池 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
电 5 strokes
池 6 strokes
In Traditional characters:
電 13 strokes
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