電腦

See also: 电脑 and 電脳

Chinese

electric; electricity; electrical brain
trad. (電腦)
simp. (电脑)
Literally: “electric brain”.

Etymology

Coined by Taiwanese computer expert Fan Kuanling (范光陵) in 1965 in his book 《電腦和你》 (Computers and You).

Pronunciation


Noun

電腦

  1. computer (Classifier: m c;  m)
    電腦 / 电脑   wán diànnǎo   to play on the computer
    試用電腦 / 试用电脑   Wǒ shìyòng xīn diànnǎo.   I tried out the new computer.
    就是電腦價格 [MSC, trad.]
    就是电脑价格 [MSC, simp.]
    Jiùshì zhè tái diànnǎo jiàgé shàng wàn, wǒ yě huì mǎi. [Pinyin]
    Even if this computer's price is over 10,000 yuan, I'm still going to buy it.

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Derived terms

Descendants

  • Atayal: tennaw
  • Bouyei: dianqnaoj
  • Bunun: tinnau
  • Saaroa: tinnau
  • Tibetan: གློག་ཀླད (glog klad) (calque)
  • Taroko: tennaw
  • → Yanbian Korean: 뗀노 (ttenno)
  • Zhuang: dennauj
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