日电

日電
rìdiàn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 dispatch dated today (in news bylines)
  2. 2 wire / cable from a place

Examples

Xīnhuáshè Běijīng sì yuè èr shí wǔ rìdiàn, Guówùyuàn jīnrì fābù zuìxīn zhèngcè.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 25 — the State Council today released a new policy.
Jù wài diànbào dào, Bālí sì yuè èr shí sān rìdiàn chuánlái zhòngyào xiāoxi.
According to foreign wires, an important report came in from Paris dated April 23.

Tips

register
日电 (literally 'day cable') is a fixed news byline element. You see it in the form '<place> <date>' at the top of nearly every Xinhua article — it marks where and when the dispatch was filed.
culture
Originally referred to telegraph ( = electric/telegram) cables sent the same day. The wording survived the move to digital wire services as a frozen journalistic convention.

Stroke Order

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