🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

电工

Pronunciation / Transliteration: diàngōng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Electrician/ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪʃən/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"电工正在检查房屋的电路。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A tradesperson specializing in electrical wiring of buildings, stationary machines, and related equipment.

    "We called an electrician to fix the faulty circuit breaker in the basement."
  2. 2

    A technician who installs, maintains, or repairs electrical equipment or systems in a specific industry, such as theater or film production.

    "The film set electrician carefully adjusted the overhead studio lighting."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern English 'electric' (from New Latin 'electricus', coined in the 17th century from Greek 'ēlektron', meaning amber) combined with the agent suffix '-ician'. The word emerged in the mid-19th century with the rapid development and commercialization of electrical technology and telegraphy.

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