电视

diànshì

television; TV

Type: NounsHSK 1
Character origin

电 (electricity) + 视 (to view). 'Electric vision' is television — a thoroughly modern compound (20th century).

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China Central Television's New Year Gala (春晚, Chūnwǎn) is the most-watched programme on earth, with over a billion viewers every year.

Radicals it's made of
shìaltar
jiànto see
Example sentence

我们看电视吧。

Wǒmen kàn diànshì ba.

Let's watch television.

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