荧光灯

熒光燈

yíngguāngdēng

noun #32,502

Measure Word

一盏荧光灯 zhǎn

Meanings

1 fluorescent lamp
2 fluorescent light
3 fluorescent tube

Characters

glimmer / fluorescent glow

Examples

办公室用的是荧光灯。

Bàngōngshì yòng de shì yíngguāngdēng.

The office uses fluorescent lights.

荧光灯比白炽灯省电。

Yíngguāngdēng bǐ báichìdēng shěngdiàn.

Fluorescent lamps save more electricity than incandescent ones.

Tips

memory

荧 (yíng) carries the 火 (fire) radical and means a faint glimmering glow — the same character is used in 荧屏 (TV/computer screen) and 荧光 (fluorescence). So 荧光灯 = 'glimmering-glow lamp' — a precise description of how phosphor-coated tubes emit light when struck by UV inside the tube.

Stroke Order

荧 yíng

光 guāng

灯 dēng