電話

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Chinese

electric; electricity; electrical
spoken words; speech; dialect
spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
 
trad. (電話)
simp. (电话)
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Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese (でん)() (denwa, telephone).

Pronunciation

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Noun

(deprecated template usage) 電話

  1. telephone; phone (Classifier: )
    電話民調电话民调  ―  diànhuà míndiào  ―  telephone poll
    時候電話 [MSC, trad.]
    时候电话 [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ bù zài de shíhou, diànhuà xiǎng le. [Pinyin]
    The phone rang when you weren't here.
    公共電話公共电话 [Hokkien]  ―  kong-kiōng tiān-ōe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  public telephone
  2. telephone call (Classifier: m mn;  m c)
    騷擾電話骚扰电话  ―  sāorǎo diànhuà  ―  nuisance call
    電話电话  ―  Wǒ gěi nǐ dǎ diànhuà.  ―  I'll give you a call.
  3. (colloquial) telephone number
    電話多少 [MSC, trad.]
    电话多少 [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ de diànhuà shì duōshǎo? [Pinyin]
    What's your phone number?

Usage notes

Note that in Mandarin, the noun 電話电话 (diànhuà, “telephone”) is used in any verb involving a phone, such as 打電話打电话 (dǎ diànhuà, “to make a phone call”), 回電話回电话 (huí diànhuà, “to call back”), 接電話接电话 (jiē diànhuà, “to answer the phone”), etc.

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Descendants

  • Bouyei: dianqhuaq
  • Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦧᦱᧈ (ṫaen¹ẋwaa¹)
  • Zhuang: denva

See also

Further reading

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
でん
Grade: 2

Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

Wasei kango, from (den, electric) +‎ (wa, conversation). See also 話す (hanasu).

Pronunciation

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Noun

(でん)() (denwa

  1. telephone
    電話(でんわ)()
    denwa o hiku
    to install a telephone
    電話(でんわ)()
    denwa ni deru
    to answer the phone
  2. telephone call; phone call; call
    電話(でんわ)()ける
    denwa o kakeru
    to make a call
    電話(でんわ)()かって()
    denwa ga kakatte kuru
    to receive a call
    電話(でんわ)()
    denwa o kiru
    to hang up

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

(でん)()する (denwa surusuru (stem (でん)() (denwa shi), past (でん)()した (denwa shita))

  1. to make a phone call; to telephone; to call

Usage notes

  • In order to imply whom one is calling as is done in English with the preposition to in make a phone call to or by the objective case as him in the sentence I called him, the Japanese use (ni):
    (わたし)(かれ)電話(でんわ)するつもりだ。
    Watashi wa kare ni denwa suru tsumori da.
    I'm going to call him.

Conjugation

References



Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

電話 (jeonhwa) (hangeul 전화)

  1. hanja form? of 전화 (telephone)

Okinawan

Noun

電話 (hiragana でぃんわ, romaji dinwa)

  1. telephone

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

電話

  1. chữ Hán form of điện thoại (telephone).