半导体 bàndǎotǐ semiconductor
How to remember 半导体: 半 half + 导 guide + 体 body = semiconductor.
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How it is used
- Semiconductor - 半导体产业 (bàndǎotǐ chǎnyè) the semiconductor industry.
- Technical/economic term; also colloquially an old word for a transistor radio.
- Between 导体 (conductor) and 绝缘体 (insulator), as the name literally says.