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電話

简 电话 · 繁 電話
Mandarin · pinyin diàn huà

Meanings

  1. telephone
  2. Classifier: 部 bù
  3. phone call
  4. Classifier: 通 tōng
  5. phone number
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電
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話
huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
电
diàn · electricity; electric; lightning
话
huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
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4–4 · dian4 hua4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

din6 waa2

Cantonese word readings for 電話. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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din6 waa2

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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noun

  1. (countable) telephone; phone (Classifier: 部 m c)
  2. (countable) telephone call; phone call; call (Classifier: 通 m mn; 個／个 m c)
  3. (colloquial) telephone number; phone number; number

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