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电台

diàn tái

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 電臺 Measure word 个、家

电台 (diàn tái) means "transmitter-receiver; broadcasting station; radio station". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 电台 means

1. transmitter-receiver
2. broadcasting station
3. radio station

The characters in 电台

• 电diànlightning; electricity; electric (bound form)
• 台tái(classical) you (in letters); variant of 台

Example sentences

• 他上电台了。
  He is on the radio.
• 我会在电台前等你。
  Wǒ huì zài diàntái qián děng nǐ.
  I'll wait for you in front of the radio station.
• 你最喜欢的电台是什么？
  Nǐ zuì xǐhuan de diàn tái shì shénme?
  What's your favorite radio station?
• 电台没有提到这个事故。
  Diàn tái méiyǒu tídào zhège shìgù.
  There was nothing on the radio about the accident.

Words containing 电台

• 广播电台guǎng bō diàn táiradio station; broadcasting station
• 自由亚洲电台Zì yóu Yà zhōu Diàn táiRadio Free Asia
• 中国国际广播电台Zhōng guó Guó jì Guǎng bō Diàn táiChina Radio International; CRI
• 新城电台Xīn chéng Diàn táiMetro Radio Hong Kong
• 英国广播电台Yīng guó Guǎng bō Diàn táiBritish Broadcasting Corporation; BBC
• 香港电台Xiāng gǎng Diàn táiRadio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), public broadcaster
• 澳洲广播电台Ào zhōu Guǎng bō Diàn táiAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australian state-run broadcaster
• 中央广播电台Zhōng yāng Guǎng bō Diàn táiRadio Taiwan International (RTI)

Where 电台 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Technology & Digital Tools (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read diàn tái correctly.
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