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停電 (ていでん): failure of electricity — Japanese vocabulary

停電 is read ていでん and means "failure of electricity". JLPT N3 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

停電

Reading
ていでん · teiden
Translation
failure of electricity
Level
JLPT N3
Pitch accent
ていでんが

Example

町全体が停電になった。

まちぜんたいがていでんになった。

The whole town was blown out.

Kanji in this word

  • 停 — stop, halt
  • 電 — electricity

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