电动 (diàn dòng)

Character breakdown

• 电 (diàn) · 5 strokes

  Simplified form of 電, which depicts lightning (申) during a rainstorm (雨). The 雨 component was deleted for simplification.

• 动 (dòng) · 6 strokes

  Simplified form of 動. Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning. The sound component 重 was simplified to 云.