Patent ID: 8125764

Claim:
An electronic component comprising: an electronic component body having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, the electronic component body including first and second main surfaces extending along a longitudinal direction and a width direction, first and second side surfaces extending along the longitudinal direction and a height direction, and first and second end surfaces extending along the width direction and the height direction; first and second external electrodes spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction on the first side surface and extending to the first main surface; and third and fourth external electrodes spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction on the second side surface and extending to the first main surface; wherein the first to fourth external electrodes are arranged such that a shaped defined by joining centers of portions of the first to fourth external electrodes on the first main surface with a substantially straight line is substantially square; and the first main surface is provided with a substantially linear orientation identifying mark disposed thereon, the orientation identifying mark passing through an intersection of two diagonals of the substantially square shape and extending along the longitudinal direction or the width direction.