天 线

tiānxiàn

“Antenna” in Chinese is 天线 (tiānxiàn).

Meaning

antenna; aerial
(fig.) connection to higher authorities; channel to influential people

Example

这男人试着安装他自己的天线。

The man tried to install his own antenna.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

tiānHSK 14 strokesday xiànHSK 38 strokesthread

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