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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 电话

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
电话 diàn huà - telephone
- CL:部[bu4]
- phone call
- CL:通[tong1]
- phone number

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 1 219 503 465

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
diàn- lightning
- electricity
- electric (bound form)
- to get (or give) an electric shock
- phone call or telegram etc
- to send via telephone or telegram etc
huà- dialect
- language
- spoken words
- speech
- talk
- words
- conversation
- what sb said
- CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
huà- old variant of 話|话[hua4]

Other Words Containing 电话

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
电话 - 1 219 503 465
打电话 1 1 314 2,125 1,157
电话线 - - 8,939 30,977 35,283
电话亭 - - 10,203 35,393 34,057
电话簿 - - 12,281 42,463 27,758
通电话 - - 12,452 19,531 15,624
公用电话 - - 14,307 - -
电话会议 - - 18,062 17,251 32,049
无线电话 - - 18,345 71,706 108,934
长途电话 - - 23,446 31,456 41,818
电话本 - - 24,237 - -
电话机 - - 26,299 26,058 36,532
可视电话 - - 34,387 - -
电话网 - - 64,426 54,841 90,375