以太网

以太網
yǐtàiwǎng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Ethernet

Examples

HSK 6
Zhè tái diànnǎo kěyǐ yòng wǎngxiàn liánjiē yǐtàiwǎng.
This computer can connect to Ethernet with a network cable.
HSK 7-9
Gōngsī de bàngōngshì dōu jiērù le qiānzhào yǐtàiwǎng, wǎngsù bǐ wúxiàn kuài duō le.
All the company's offices are on gigabit Ethernet, which is much faster than Wi-Fi.

Tips

history
以太 transliterates "ether", the invisible medium that nineteenth-century physicists believed carried light. Ethernet's inventors named their cable network after it in the 1970s, and Chinese kept the image: ether + 网, network.

Stroke Order

以 yǐ
太 tài
网 wǎng