The Chinese Radical: 电


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Meaning
electricity    电

Explanation Field 田 with lightning rod 乚.

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
electricity, electrical
diàn
(This character was simplified from 電) Rice field 田 with a lightning conductor/arrester 乚 for leading electricity.
If lightning strikes in the rice field, the lightning arrester has: electricity.  
HSK 5
rope
shéng
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: toad 黾 (The animal 口 on the field 田 with the long tongue 乚. HERE: At the rope-maker the rope 乚 is clamped in two holding jaws 口,臼 for being twisted.)
Threads are clamped twice (and then twisted) to make a rope 乚.  
HSK 6
to conceal, cover up, surprise
yǎn
Left: hand 扌, right: suddenly 奄 (i.e. lightning stroke: The big 大 electricity 电 [= lightning strike] comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚]
The hand makes a sudden movement to conceal sth.  
HSK 6
to flood, to submerge, to drown, delay
yān
Left: water 氵, right: suddenly 奄 (i.e lightning strike: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚]
If the water comes suddenly, then as a flood, where you drown.  
no HSK
fly, musca
yíng
Left: insect 虫, right: toad 黾 (= The animal 口 on the field 田 with the long tongue 乚.)
The insect for the toad, is the fly.  
no HSK
turtle, tortoise
guī
Top: kneeling person ⺈, bottom: electricity 电 (field 田 with lightning rod 乚)
A head ⺈, body 田 and tail 乚 of a: turtle!  
no HSK
I (northern dialects)
ǎn
Left: Person 人, right: suddenly 奄 (i.e. lighting strike: the big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning rod 乚]
(I boast to be full of energy:) The person with big electricity, that is me!  
no HSK
hut, small temple, nunnery
ān
广
Outside: building 广, below: suddenly 奄 (i.e. lighting strike: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning rod 乚]
A building that (can be built) suddenly, is a small hut.  
no HSK
suddenly, abruptly, hastily, to cover
yǎn
Top: big 大, bottom: electricity 电 (A field 田 with a lightning rod 乚)
(At a lightning strike:) The big electricity comes suddenly.  
no HSK
to castrate, a castrate, neuter
yān
Outside: gate 门/門, inside: suddenly 奄 (i.e. a lightning stroke: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚]
(Electric pasture fence? - When climbing over:) the gate, the big electricity made him: a castrate.  

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