电话 電話
Measure word
- 部 bù ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc attested
- 通 tōng to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters... attested
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
- 台 tái typhoon attested in use
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
These are the forms of 電, the traditional character: 电 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“我可以用电话吗？”“请便。”
"May I use the phone?" "Please feel free."
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“电话响了。”“我去接。”
"The phone is ringing." "I'll get it."
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“电话响了。”“我来接。”
"The phone is ringing." "I'll get it."
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23点我打电话给她的时候，她已经去睡觉了。
She had already gone to bed when I phoned her at 11:00 p.m.
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七点钟我打电话给你.
I'll call you at seven.
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万一来不了，我会先给你打电话。
In case I can’t come, I’ll give you a call beforehand.