车号 車號 chē hào vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number) 电话 電話 diàn huà telephone / CL:部[bu4] / phone call / CL:通[tong1] / phone number syn 多少 duō shao how much? / how many? / (phone number, student ID etc) what number? syn 尾号 尾號 wěi hào last digit (or last few digits) of a phone number, license plate number etc 序号 序號 xù hào ordinal number / serial number / sequence number 小数 小數 xiǎo shù small figure / small amount / the part of a number to the right of the decimal point (or radix point) / fractional part of a number / number between 0 and 1 / decimal fraction 对号 對號 duì hào tick / check mark (✓) / number for verification (serial number, seat number etc) / (fig.) two things match up 号数 號數 hào shù number in a sequence / ordinal number / serial number 入伍编号 入伍編號 service number / serial number / number 回数 回數 huí shù number of times (sth happens) / number of chapters in a classical novel / (math.) palindromic number 自乘 zì chéng (math.) to multiply (a number) by itself / to raise (a number) to a power / (esp.) to square (a number) 手机 手機 shǒu jī cell phone / mobile phone / CL:部[bu4],支[zhi1] syn 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 大哥大 dà gē dà cell phone (bulky, early-model one) / brick phone / mob boss 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 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 断线 斷線 duàn xiàn (of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off 掉线 掉線 diào xiàn to get disconnected (from the Internet) 间断 間斷 jiàn duàn disconnected / interrupted / suspended / a gap / a break syn 世隔绝 世隔絕 shì gé jué isolated from the world / disconnected 绑定 綁定 bǎng dìng (loanword) binding / to bind (e.g. an account to a mobile phone number) 解绑 解綁 jiě bǎng to unbind (e.g. a phone number from an account) 改运 改運 gǎi yùn to alter one's fate / to improve one's luck (e.g. by changing one's name or phone number) 销号 銷號 xiāo hào to close an account / to cancel a (phone) number 次数 次數 cì shù number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.) 编号 編號 biān hào to number / numbering / serial number syn 点击数 點擊數 diǎn jī shù number of clicks / number of hits (on a website) 字数 字數 zì shù number of written characters / number of words / word count syn 批号 批號 pī hào lot number / batch number 班次 bān cì grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period) 尾数 尾數 wěi shù remainder (after rounding a number) / decimal part (of number after the decimal point) / mantissa (i.e. fractional part of common logarithm in math.) / small change / balance (of an account) syn 减员 減員 jiǎn yuán to reduce the number of personnel / to experience a reduction in the number of personnel syn 行号 行號 háng hào (computing) (text file) line number / (data table or spreadsheet) row number / (Tw) unincorporated firm (typically a smaller business such as a sole proprietorship or partnership) 充数 充數 chōng shù to make up the number (i.e. to fill places up to a given number) / to serve as stopgap syn 约数 約數 yuē shù divisor (of a number) / approximate number syn 号 號 hào ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people syn 句数 句數 jù shù number of sentences / number of lines (in verse etc) 号头 號頭 hào tóu number / serial number 质子数 質子數 zhì zǐ shù proton number in nucleus / atomic number 阿伏伽德罗数 阿伏伽德羅數 ā fú jiā dé luó shù Avogadro's number / the number of molecules in a mole, about 6.022 x 10^23 税号 fiscal number / tax file number 智能 zhì néng intelligent / able / smart (phone, system, bomb etc) 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 通话 通話 tōng huà to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call syn 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" 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] 致电 致電 zhì diàn to phone / to telegram syn 中国电信 中國電信 zhōng guó diàn xìn China Telecom (Chinese company providing mobile phone service) 套餐 tào cān set meal / (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription) 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) 接听 接聽 jiē tīng to answer the phone 打通 dǎ tōng to open access / to establish contact / to remove a block / to put through (a phone connection) syn 通电话 通電話 tōng diàn huà to phone sb up syn 翻盖 翻蓋 fān gài flip-top (mobile phone, handbag etc) / to rebuild / to renovate syn 挂断 掛斷 guà duàn to hang up (a phone) 座机 座機 zuò jī fixed-line phone / landline / private plane 传呼 傳呼 chuán hū to notify sb of a call / to call sb to the phone 手机充值卡 手機充值卡 shǒu jī chōng zhí kǎ phone recharge card 公用电话 公用電話 gōng yòng diàn huà public phone / CL:部[bu4] 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 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) 话务员 話務員 huà wù yuán phone operator 打不通 dǎ bu tōng cannot get through (on phone) 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 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 裸机 裸機 luǒ jī hardware-only device / computer without operating system or other software installed / mobile phone or pager without network subscription 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 喂 wéi hello (when answering the phone) 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 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) 小灵通机站 小靈通機站 xiǎo líng tōng jī zhàn cell phone base or repeater station (telecommunications) 滑盖 滑蓋 huá gài slider phone 移动通信网络 移動通信網絡 yí dòng tōng xìn wǎng luò cell phone network 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 机不离手 機不離手 jī bù lí shǒu to be unable to do without one's cell phone 爪机 爪機 zhuǎ jī (Internet slang) mobile phone 摇电话 搖電話 yáo diàn huà (old) to make a phone call 滑盖手机 滑蓋手機 huá gài shǒu jī slider phone 煲电话粥 煲電話粥 bāo diàn huà zhōu to talk endlessly on the phone 背夹电池 背夾電池 bèi jiā diàn chí battery case (for a phone) 叫车 叫車 jiào chē to call a cab (by phone) / to request a ride (via an app) 储值 儲值 chǔ zhí (Tw) to put money into (a stored-value card or pre-paid phone account) / to top up 拨通 撥通 bō tōng to get through to sb on the phone 手机壳 手機殼 shǒu jī ké cell phone case 跑分 pǎo fēn (computing) to benchmark a computer, phone, CPU etc / (benchmark test) score / (sports) run (scoring unit in cricket) / to provide a channel for the transfer of illegally obtained funds (in return for a commission) 第一 dì yī first / number one / primary syn 第二 dì èr second / number two / next / secondary syn 