电话
diàn huà
Pinyin

Definition

电话
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diàn huà
  1. telephone
  2. CL:部[bù]
  3. phone call
  4. CL:通[tōng]
  5. phone number

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

大话骰
dà huà tóu
  1. 1 liar's dice (dice game)
的话
de huà
  1. 1 if (coming after a conditional clause)
笑话
xiào huà
  1. 1 joke
  2. 2 jest
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
  4. 4 to laugh at
  5. 5 to mock
话
huà
  1. 1 dialect
  2. 2 language
  3. 3 spoken words
  4. 4 speech
  5. 5 talk
  6. 6 words
  7. 7 conversation
  8. 8 what sb said
  9. 9 CL:種|种[zhǒng],席[xí],句[jù],口[kǒu],番[fān]
话费
huà fèi
  1. 1 call charge
话题
huà tí
  1. 1 subject (of a talk or conversation)
  2. 2 topic
说话
shuō huà
  1. 1 to speak
  2. 2 to say
  3. 3 to talk
  4. 4 to gossip
  5. 5 to tell stories
  6. 6 talk
  7. 7 word
电
diàn
  1. 1 electric
  2. 2 electricity
  3. 3 electrical
电信
diàn xìn
  1. 1 telecommunications
电影
diàn yǐng
  1. 1 movie
  2. 2 film
  3. 3 CL:部[bù],片[piàn],幕[mù],場|场[chǎng]
电脑
diàn nǎo
  1. 1 computer
  2. 2 CL:臺|台[tái]
电视
diàn shì
  1. 1 television
  2. 2 TV
  3. 3 CL:臺|台[tái],個|个[gè]
电视剧
diàn shì jù
  1. 1 TV play
  2. 2 soap opera
  3. 3 CL:部[bù]
电话
diàn huà
  1. 1 telephone
  2. 2 CL:部[bù]
  3. 3 phone call
  4. 4 CL:通[tōng]
  5. 5 phone number
来电
lái diàn
  1. 1 incoming telegram or telephone call
  2. 2 your telegram, telephone call, or message
  3. 3 to send a telegram or make a telephone call here (i.e. to the speaker)
  4. 4 to have instant attraction to sb
  5. 5 to have chemistry with sb
  6. 6 to come back (of electricity, after an outage)
俗话
sú huà
  1. 1 common saying
  2. 2 proverb
假话
jiǎ huà
  1. 1 a lie
  2. 2 untrue statement
  3. 3 misstatement
停电
tíng diàn
  1. 1 to have a power failure
  2. 2 power cut
像话
xiàng huà
  1. 1 proper
充电
chōng diàn
  1. 1 to recharge batteries
  2. 2 fig. to rest and recuperate

Idioms (20)

三句话不离本行
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
  1. 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)
不问就听不到假话
bù wèn jiù tīng bù dào jiǎ huà
  1. 1 Don't ask and you won't be told any lies. (idiom)
二话不说
èr huà bù shuō
  1. 1 not saying anything further (idiom); not raising any objection
  2. 2 without demur
句句实话
jù jù shí huà
  1. 1 to speak honestly (idiom)
星流电击
xīng liú diàn jī
  1. 1 meteor shower and violent thunderclaps (idiom); omens of violent development
  2. 2 portentous signs
无话不谈
wú huà bù tán
  1. 1 not to hold anything back (idiom)
  2. 2 (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
无话可说
wú huà kě shuō
  1. 1 to have nothing to say (idiom)
睁眼说瞎话
zhēng yǎn shuō xiā huà
  1. 1 to lie through one's teeth (idiom)
  2. 2 to talk drivel
睁着眼睛说瞎话
zhēng zhe yǎn jīng shuō xiā huà
  1. 1 to lie through one's teeth (idiom)
  2. 2 to talk drivel
站着说话不腰疼
zhàn zhe shuō huà bù yāo téng
  1. 1 it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter (idiom)
  2. 2 to be an armchair expert
  3. 3 to blabber on
听话听声，锣鼓听音
tīng huà tīng shēng , luó gǔ tīng yīn
  1. 1 to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
话不投机
huà bù tóu jī
  1. 1 the conversation is disagreeable (idiom)
话不投机半句多
huà bù tóu jī bàn jù duō
  1. 1 when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion (idiom)
话到嘴边留三分
huà dào zuǐ biān liú sān fēn
  1. 1 A still tongue makes a wise head. (idiom)
话多不甜
huà duō bù tián
  1. 1 too much talk is a nuisance (idiom)
说来话长
shuō lái huà cháng
  1. 1 start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
长话短说
cháng huà duǎn shuō
  1. 1 to make a long story short (idiom)
闲话家常
xián huà jiā cháng
  1. 1 to chat about domestic trivia (idiom)
电光朝露
diàn guāng zhāo lù
  1. 1 flash of lightning, morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral
  2. 2 impermanent
鬼话连篇
guǐ huà lián piān
  1. 1 to tell one lie after another (idiom)
  2. 2 to talk nonsense
  3. 3 bogus story

Sample Sentences

我先生今儿出门儿的时候，说要和大学同学聚餐，我总觉得不对劲儿，一定有事儿，就打电话问了一个熟人，他就露馅儿了，我压根儿没想到他会这样骗我。
wǒ xiānsheng jīnr5 chūméner de shíhou ，shuō yào hé dàxué tóngxué jùcān ，wǒ zǒng juéde bùduìjìnr5 ，yīdìng yǒu shìr5 ，jiù dǎdiànhuà wèn le yīgē shúrén ，tā jiù lòuxiànr5 le ，wǒ yàgēnr5 méixiǎngdào tā huì zhèyàng piàn wǒ 。
When my husband went out today and said he was going to have dinner with his college friends, I couldn’t help feeling that something was wrong. I called an acquaintance and he gave my husband away. I had no idea he would lie to me like that.
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智能手机“麻雀虽小，五脏俱全”。你可以打电话，传信息，还可以拍照。
zhìnéngshǒujī “máquèsuīxiǎo,wǔzàngjùquán ”。nǐ kěyǐ dǎdiànhuà ，chuán xìnxī ，hái kěyǐ pāizhào 。
A smartphone is small but it has every function you may need. You can make a call, text and also take pictures.
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我的电话需要充电。请问你有苹果手机的充电器吗？
wǒ de diànhuà xūyào chōngdiàn 。qǐngwèn nǐ yǒu píngguǒ shǒujī de chōngdiànqì ma ？
I need to charge my cellphone. Do you have an iPhone charger I could borrow?
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我没有，我用的是安卓,让我问问安娜…我想她用的是苹果的电话。
wǒ méiyǒu ，wǒ yòng de shì Ānzhuó ,ràng wǒ wèn wèn Ānnà …wǒ xiǎng tā yòng de shì píngguǒ de diànhuà 。
No, I have an Android. Let me check with Anna…I think she has an iPhone.
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我妈一直告诉我，人老了血压就会高，老是打电话来嘱咐我一定要多运动。
wǒ mā yīzhí gàosu wǒ ，rén lǎo le xuèyā jiù huì gāo ，lǎoshi dǎdiànhuà lái zhǔfù wǒ yīdìng yào duō yùndòng 。
My mother has always told me, people’s blood pressure gets higher as they age. She’s always calling me to tell me I need to exercise more.
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请问你的电话号码是多少？
qǐngwèn nǐ de diànhuà hàomǎ shì duōshao ？
What is your telephone number?
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请问你的电话号码是几号？
qǐngwèn nǐ de diànhuà hàomǎ shì jǐhào ？
Excuse me. What is your telephone number?
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怎么没接电话？
zěnme méi jiē diànhuà ？
How come you didn’t pick up the phone?
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下雨了吗？哦，我给一个朋友打电话。
xiàyǔ le ma ？ò ，wǒ gěi yī ge péngyou dǎdiànhuà 。
Is it raining? Oh…Let me give a friend a phone call.
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我要打电话给我的妈妈。
wǒ yào dǎdiànhuà gěi wǒ de māma 。
I'm going to call my mom.
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