电脑
diàn nǎo
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 電腦
A computer, desktop or laptop. 用电脑 is 'to use a computer' and 玩电脑 'to play on the computer'; a laptop is 笔记本电脑, literally 'notebook computer'. The measure word is 台: 一台电脑. Technical writing prefers the term 计算机.
Máy tính, máy vi tính, gồm cả máy để bàn lẫn máy xách tay. 用电脑 là dùng máy tính, 玩电脑 là chơi máy tính; máy tính xách tay là 笔记本电脑. Lượng từ là 台: 一台电脑. Trong văn bản kỹ thuật thường dùng từ 计算机.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 电/電 = điện · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “điện não” (dien-nao). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “电脑” mean?
A computer, desktop or laptop. 用电脑 is 'to use a computer' and 玩电脑 'to play on the computer'; a laptop is 笔记本电脑, literally 'notebook computer'. The measure word is 台: 一台电脑. Technical writing prefers the term 计算机. Literally: electric brain
Is “电脑” formal or informal?
电脑 is generally neutral.