电话 電話 diàn huà telephone / CL:部[bu4] / phone call / CL:通[tong1] / phone number syn 接 jiē to receive / to answer (the phone) / to meet or welcome sb / to connect / to catch / to join / to extend / to take one's turn on duty / to take over for sb syn 多少 duō shao how much? / how many? / (phone number, student ID etc) what number? syn 电 電 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 syn 通话 通話 tōng huà to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call syn 细胞 細胞 xì bāo cell (biology) 牢房 láo fáng jail cell / prison cell syn 来电 來電 lái diàn incoming telephone call (or telegram) / to phone in / to send in a telegram / to have an instant attraction to sb / (of electricity, after an outage) to come back 精子 jīng zǐ sperm cell / spermatozoon syn 回电 回電 huí diàn to call sb back (on the phone) / a return call / to reply to a telegram / to wire back / a reply telegram 智能 zhì néng intelligent / able / smart (phone, system, bomb etc) 致电 致電 zhì diàn to phone / to telegram syn 小区 小區 xiǎo qū housing estate / community / neighborhood / (telecommunications) cell 打通 dǎ tōng to open access / to establish contact / to remove a block / to put through (a phone connection) syn 套餐 tào cān set meal / (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription) 通电话 通電話 tōng diàn huà to phone sb up syn 干细胞 幹細胞 gàn xì bāo stem cell 停机 停機 tíng jī (of a machine) to stop / to shut down / to park a plane / to finish shooting (a TV program etc) / to suspend a phone line / (of a prepaid mobile phone) to be out of credit 公用电话 公用電話 gōng yòng diàn huà public phone / CL:部[bu4] syn 多利 duō lì Dolly (1996-2003), female sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell 癌细胞 癌細胞 ái xì bāo cancer cell syn 囚室 qiú shì prison cell syn 传呼 傳呼 chuán hū to notify sb of a call / to call sb to the phone 座机 座機 zuò jī fixed-line phone / landline / private plane 专线 專線 zhuān xiàn special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL:條|条[tiao2] 脑细胞 腦細胞 nǎo xì bāo brain cell 白细胞 白細胞 bái xì bāo white blood cell / leukocyte 红细胞 紅細胞 hóng xì bāo erythrocyte / red blood cell 铁窗 鐵窗 tiě chuāng window with an iron grating (apartment etc) / barred window of a prison cell syn 血细胞 血細胞 xuè xì bāo blood cell 号子 號子 hào zi work chant / prison cell / type / sort / mark / sign / signal / (Tw) brokerage firm syn 白血球 bái xuè qiú white blood cell / leukocyte 细胞核 細胞核 xì bāo hé nucleus (of cell) syn 红血球 紅血球 hóng xuè qiú erythrocyte / red blood cell 体细胞 體細胞 tǐ xì bāo somatic cell 细胞膜 細胞膜 xì bāo mó cell membrane 区位 區位 qū wèi geographical location / (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区[qu1] and cell 位[wei4] used to specify a character in a CJK character set) 裸机 裸機 luǒ jī hardware-only device / computer without operating system or other software installed / mobile phone or pager without network subscription 翻盖 翻蓋 fān gài flip-top (mobile phone, handbag etc) / to rebuild / to renovate syn 话务员 話務員 huà wù yuán phone operator 细胞壁 細胞壁 xì bāo bì cell wall 小灵通 小靈通 xiǎo líng tōng Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), mobile network system operating in China 1998-2013, branded "Little Smart" 中国电信 中國電信 zhōng guó diàn xìn China Telecom (Chinese company providing mobile phone service) 挂机 掛機 guà jī to hang up (a phone) / to leave a computer etc running (idling, downloading, or playing a game in one's stead etc) 绑定 綁定 bǎng dìng (loanword) binding / to bind (e.g. an account to a mobile phone number) 接听 接聽 jiē tīng to answer the phone 挂断 掛斷 guà duàn to hang up (a phone) 单元格 單元格 dān yuán gé (spreadsheet) cell 燃料电池 燃料電池 rán liào diàn chí fuel cell 手机充值卡 手機充值卡 shǒu jī chōng zhí kǎ phone recharge card 太阳能电池 太陽能電池 tài yáng néng diàn chí solar cell 支原体 支原體 zhī yuán tǐ Mycoplasma (parasitic bacteria without cell wall) 打爆 dǎ bào to blow out / to blow off / (computer games) to zap / (phone) to ring off the hook / to be jammed / to max out (credit card etc) 光伏 guāng fú photovoltaic (e.g. cell) 细胞分裂 細胞分裂 xì bāo fēn liè cell division 打不通 dǎ bu tōng cannot get through (on phone) 细胞生物学 細胞生物學 xì bāo shēng wù xué cell biology 细胞培养 細胞培養 xì bāo péi yǎng cell culture 太阳电池 太陽電池 tài yáng diàn chí solar cell syn 喂 wéi hello (when answering the phone) syn 挂 掛 guà to hang / to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried / to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital) / to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill / to die / to be finished / to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects syn 通 tōng to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc syn 刷 shuā a brush / to paint / to daub / to brush / to scrub / (fig.) to remove / to eliminate (from a contest) / to fire (from a job) / (onom.) swish / rustle / to swipe (a card) / to scroll on (a phone) / (gaming) to grind / to farm (for experience points, equipment, levels etc) syn 神经细胞 神經細胞 shén jīng xì bāo nerve cell / neuron syn 核仁 hé rén nucleolus (within nucleus of cell) 二倍体 二倍體 èr bèi tǐ diploid (in cell biology) 水牢 shuǐ láo prison cell containing water, in which prisoners are forced to be partly immersed syn 固体高分子膜燃料电池车 固體高分子膜燃料電池車 proton exchange membrane fuel cell / polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell / PEM fuel cell / solid polymer fuel cell 山寨机 山寨機 shān zhài jī knockoff cell phone / counterfeit phone 棒棒机 棒棒機 bàng bàng jī bar phone (cell phone shaped like a bar of candy) 红机 紅機 hóng jī red phone, a telephone in the secure internal phone system used by the CCP elite 空号 空號 kōng hào disconnected phone number / unassigned phone number 小灵通机站 小靈通機站 xiǎo líng tōng jī zhàn cell phone base or repeater station (telecommunications) 移动通信网络 移動通信網絡 yí dòng tōng xìn wǎng luò cell phone network 机不离手 機不離手 jī bù lí shǒu to be unable to do without one's cell phone 手机壳 手機殼 shǒu jī ké cell phone case 镰形血球贫血症 鐮形血球貧血症 lián xíng xuè qiú pín xuè zhèng sickle-cell anaemia / sickle-cell disease 性细胞 性細胞 xìng xì bāo sexual cell / germline cell / gamete 生殖细胞 生殖細胞 shēng zhí xì bāo germ cell / reproductive cell 破壁 pò bì dilapidated wall / to break through a wall / (fig.) to break through / (biotechnology) to disrupt cell walls / cell disruption 许旺细胞 許旺細胞 xǔ wàng xì bāo Schwann cell (support axon of nerve cell) / neurolemmocyte 间充质干细胞 間充質幹細胞 jiān chōng zhì gàn xì bāo mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology) CD4 T淋巴细胞 CD4 T淋巴細胞 cd tlìn bā xì bāo CD4+ T lymphocyte / CD4+ T-cell / CD4 cell 空中作业小组 空中作業小組 air operations cell / air cell 网际电话 網際電話 wǎng jì diàn huà Internet phone 行动电话 行動電話 xíng dòng diàn huà mobile phone (Tw) 滑盖 滑蓋 huá gài slider phone 电话公司 電話公司 diàn huà gōng sī phone company 电话门 電話門 diàn huà mén "Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records 流动电话渗透率 mobile phone penetration rate 电台听众来电节目 radio phone-in programme 临时性电话线路连接 lín shí xìng diàn huà xiàn lù lián jiē phone patch interlink 保密电话 保密電話 bǎo mì diàn huà secure telephone / secure phone 全球通电话 全球通電話 quán qiú tòng diàn huà GSM phone 挂线 掛線 guà xiàn to hang up the phone 平板手机 平板手機 píng bǎn shǒu jī phablet (hybrid between a smart phone and a tablet) / CL:台[tai2] 收线 收線 shōu xiàn to reel in (a fishing line etc) / to hang up the phone 爪机 爪機 zhuǎ jī (Internet slang) mobile phone 