119
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of 911, q.v.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
119
- The telephone number for law enforcement in Jamaica, Mozambique, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
- The telephone number for ambulance services in Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea and on Taiwan.
- 119 handles fires and medical emergencies in Japan and Korea but the police have a separate number, 110.
- The telephone number for firefighting assistance in China, Bolivia, Japan, and South Korea.
- The telephone number for antiterrorist services in Afghanistan.
- (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.
Coordinate terms[edit]
- 000 (Australia), 105 (Mongolia), 110 (China, Iran), 111 (NZ), 112 (EU), 911 (North America), 999 (UK, Ireland)
Translations[edit]
Emergency services number — see 911
Anagrams[edit]
Chinese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
119 (緊急電話冧巴)/119 (紧急电话冧巴) on the Cantonese Wikipedia.Wikipedia zh-yue
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
119
- (People's Republic of China, Republic of China) 119: in mainland China (“People's Republic of China”) and Taiwan (“Republic of China”) the emergency telephone number for firefighting.
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