Zi:电
电(F電) [diàn] (闪电) lightning; electricity (电流 ‘electric current’); 电话 phone
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The Shuōwén Seal form of 電(𩃓) diàn ‘thunderbolt/lightning’ (雷光) combines 雨 (yǔ) ‘rain’, and 电/申(𦥔) shēn (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 𩃿.
Note: 电/申(𦥔) shēn here represents the collision of two air masses (as the friction between hands) producing lightning (static electricity).
Compare: 雷/靁 léi ‘thunder’, formerly also wr. 𩇓, 𤴐.
Note: 电 diàn (as an independent character), but 电/申 shēn as the component in 電; the modern forms 電/電 the old component 𦥔 (8 strokes) is abbrev. to 电/申 (5 strokes).
In the common full form 電 the top of the last stroke 乚 is omitted, and the end of that stroke 乚 is curved.
In the modern simplified form 电 the top of 申 is restored, but the top component 雨 of the full form is omitted.
Compare: 虹(𧍺) hóng ‘rainbow’; 龙(龍𥪖) lóng ‘dragon’.
Compare: 甩 shuǎi ‘swing’; 甲 jiǎ (天干).
►references: Henshall:180; Karlgren:AD868; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:4.2528.2; Lindqvist:170; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:015.0.03; EDOC:0
►components: 日乚申𦥔
►Cantonese: dihn-
<cdl char='电' uni='7535' points='4,0 128,124' radical='Q K73X4 K5Z1 K2D1'>
<comp char='日' uni='65E5' points='0,24 100,80' />
<stroke type='swg' points='50,0 50,108 72,128 128,128 128,98' />
<!-- 2012-06-30T23:57:04Z -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='日' uni='65E5' points='24,8 104,120'>
<comp char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='0,0 128,128' />
<comp char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,60 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='4,4 124,128'>
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='hz' points='0,0 128,0 128,128' head='cut' tail='long' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF7E](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,4 128,124' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='h' points='0,0 128,0' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF79](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+7535
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