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Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
Apparent
申 雨 ⿱⻗
Mandarin
dian4
English
Definitions
electric; electricity; electrical; lightning; dispatch; telegram
Mnemonic
That which extends 申 down from a rain cloud 雨; early form had a pictograph of lightning at the bottom