FHKI 60th Anniversary Commemorative Album

你在電器鋪選購電器時，或會聽到有人提起「白 電」和「黑電」。那麼「白電」和「黑電」是甚 麼來的？電也有顏色之分嗎？ 電當然沒有顏色之分，「白電」和「黑電」是一 個約定俗成的分類概念。簡單而言，「白電」是 指可減輕家務的電器，例如洗衣機、雪櫃、微波 爐等。而「黑電」則是提供娛樂及休閒的家庭電 器，例如電視機、錄影機、遊戲機、乃至後期的 智能電話等。由於「白電」和「黑電」在面世初 期常分別配以白色及黑色的機殼，因此「白電」 和「黑電」概念亦隨之而生。 Have you ever heard people referring to electrical appliances as “white appliances” or “black appliances”? Do electrical appliances have colours? Simply put, “white appliances” refer to electrical appliances that help alleviate the burden of housework, such as washing machines, refrigerators, and microwave ovens. “Black appliances” refer to those that provide entertainment, such as television sets, video recorders, game consoles and smartphones. They are so called because they either had a white or a black casing when they first came into existence. Federation of Hong Kong Industries 60 th Anniversary Commemorative Album 81