电话 (diàn huà): meaning and stroke order
电话 (diàn huà) means telephone, CL:部, phone call, CL:通, phone number.
电话
- Simplified
- 电话
- Traditional
- 電話
- Pinyin
- diàn huà
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Stroke order of 电话
电
- diàn lightning; electricity
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 電
Stroke by stroke
话
- huà dialect; language
- huà old variant of 話|话[hua4]
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 話
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Meaning of 电话
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diàn huà
Traditional 電話
- telephone
- CL:部[bu4]
- phone call
- CL:通[tong1]
- phone number
Radicals of the characters
- 电
- Radical 田 (Kangxi radical 102) · 5 strokes · built from 日 and 乚
- 话
- Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 讠 on the left, 舌 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
电话 in our stories
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他给陈静打电话：“你在哪儿？”
tā gěi Chén Jìng dǎ diànhuà nǐ zài nǎr
He phoned Chen Jing: "Where are you?"
From the story At the airport HSK 2
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他用妻子的手机给自己打电话。
tā yòng qīzi de shǒujī gěi zìjǐ dǎ diànhuà
He uses his wife's phone to call his own number.
From the story Where's my phone? HSK 2
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第二天，罗丹接到了公司的电话：她可以下个星期来上班了。
dì-èr tiān Luó Dān jiē dào le gōngsī de diànhuà tā kěyǐ xià gè xīngqī lái shàngbān le
The next day Luo Dan gets a call from the company: she can start work next week.
From the story The honest answer HSK 3
Stories using 电话
- At the airport HSK 2
- Where's my phone? HSK 2
- The honest answer HSK 3
- Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3
- The identical suitcase HSK 4
- Twelve hours apart HSK 4
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).