电话(diàn huà): telephone
telephone
Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
Watch how each character of 电话 is written, one at a time. When a character is finished, the next one draws.
Word information
- Pinyin
- diàn huà
- Meaning
- telephone
- HSK level
- HSK 1
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- 電話
Appears in lessons
电话 is taught in these textbook lessons.
Example sentences
How 电话 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
可惜电话占线。
kě xī diàn huà zhàn xiàn
The number is unfortunately busy.
谁发明了电话？
shuí fā míng le diàn huà
Who invented the telephone?
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 电话 — tap one to open its word page.
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