电视
diàn shì
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 電視
Television: the set in the room, and also TV as a medium, with its channels and programmes. To watch is 看电视 and to switch it on 开电视; a TV series is 电视剧 (diànshìjù).
Ti vi, truyền hình: vừa là cái máy trong nhà, vừa là truyền hình nói chung với các kênh, các chương trình. Xem ti vi là 看电视, bật ti vi là 开电视; phim truyền hình là 电视剧 (diànshìjù).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (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 · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “电视” mean?
Television: the set in the room, and also TV as a medium, with its channels and programmes. To watch is 看电视 and to switch it on 开电视; a TV series is 电视剧 (diànshìjù). Literally: electric viewing
Is “电视” formal or informal?
电视 is generally neutral.