VocabularyHSK 3 · core

电话

diànhuà

telephone

Part of speech · noun

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Examples

我打电话给你。
I'll call you.
你的电话号码是多少?
What's your phone number?

Collocations

打电话接电话电话号码

Mnemonic

电话 diànhuà "phone" — 电 "electricity, lightning" + 话 "speech" = "electric speech". Same construction as Japanese 電話 and Korean "jeonhwa". The verb is 打 ("to hit/strike") — 打电话 = "to make a call".

Quick check

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