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Rosalie Dang
Rosalie Dang
5 years ago

I think of Benjamin Franklin’s kite and key experiment = electricity

Kathryn Yep
Kathryn Yep
5 years ago

Looks like a lightning bolt coming from a cloud

Julia Gangemi
Julia Gangemi
4 years ago

It looks like a kite, which is how Ben Franklin discovered that lightning was electricity.

Charlotte LaGasse
Charlotte LaGasse
4 years ago

The vertical stroke looks like a wire plugging the box into something, using electricity.

Hugo Obori
Hugo Obori
4 years ago

It looks like an electricity network. The kind you see when you open your electrical fuse.

Dome Suarez Vivanco
Dome Suarez Vivanco
3 years ago

It looks like the end of a cable from an electrical appliance, which you plug into a socket

Harsh Tambi
Harsh Tambi
3 years ago

The structure of the character looks like a closed electrical circuit which is unplugged right now. This is shown by the U-rounded-line at the bottom of the character

Aidan Jackson Wiggins
Aidan Jackson Wiggins
2 years ago

In 看电视, the 看 character looks like someone watching TV (the 电 character).

Deniz Acar Köstem
Deniz Acar Köstem
1 year ago

This character looks like a current flowing through a battery so we understand that it means electricity.

Sachi
Sachi
1 year ago

This character looks very similar to the circuit symbol that represents electricity.

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Anna
Anna
1 year ago

It looks like an electrical grid with a cable going through it

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Jaden Correa
Jaden Correa
1 year ago

This character reminds me of a tv on a tv stand, which reminds me of electricity.

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NYU Shanghai
Oyu-Erdene Bat-Amgalan
Oyu-Erdene Bat-Amgalan
1 year ago

This character looks like a lamp, which is powered by “electricity”.

shahd
shahd
10 months ago

a square cut in half with a wire in the middle

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NYU Shanghai
maral-od norov
maral-od norov
3 months ago

”this looks like a Christmas tree.

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NYU Shanghai
Brenna
Brenna
3 months ago

It almost looks like a top view of a turtle with a curled up tail and with it’s thin and small head peaking out of its shell.

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NYU Shanghai
Diovanna Negeski
Diovanna Negeski
3 months ago

This character is very interesting because it somehow reminds me of an energy box, full of wires inside and there’s a wire that comes out, as if it were a loose wire, which we can connect with the meaning of the character, relating it to light, and energy

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NYU Shanghai
Kiran
Kiran
3 months ago

Looks like a tv which uses ELECTRICITY