Chinese Word Entry

電話

Simplified Chinese form: 电话

Mandarin (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
Mandarin (Pinyin): diàn huà
Cantonese (Jyutping): din6 waa2
Definitions:
  1. telephone
    (classifier: )

  2. phone call
    (classifier: )

  3. phone number


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Chinese characters used in this word

electricity, electric, lightning
Readings
Mandarin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ (diàn)
Cantonese: din6
Japanese: デン (den)、 テン (ten) / いなずま (inazuma)
Korean: 전 (jeon)
Vietnamese: điện
Variants
Simplified Chinese form:

tale, talk, speech, language, dialect
Readings
Mandarin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ (huà)
Cantonese: waa6
Japanese: ワ (wa)、 カイ (kai) / はな.す (hanasu)、 はなし (hanashi)
Korean: 화 (hwa)
Vietnamese: thoại
Variants
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