电视台 (diàn shì tái)

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.

• 视 (shì) · 8 strokes

  Simplified form of 視. Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and 礻 represents the sound.

• 台 (Tái) · 5 strokes

  Originally 台 and 㠯 were pronounced the same and thus written the same. Later 口 was added to distinguish the characters.