# 電 — Electricity

Frequency rank 243 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 組 (Group), less common than 他 (Other).

- On’yomi: でん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 雨 Rain (Kangxi 173)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 2
- Strokes: 13

The ceiling of rain arrives over the flooded rice paddy as one sheet, and the farmer's umbrella spike takes the strike.

In words:

- 電話 でんわ — telephone
- 電気 でんき — electricity,electric light
- 電車 でんしゃ — electric train

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