通电话通電話 in English
- to phone sb up
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
通
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
电
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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信息产业部在其“十一五规划”（二零零六年至二零一零年）中立誓要实现村村通电话，乡乡能上网。
In its "Eleven Five Plan" (2006 to 2010), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pledged to implement phone connections in every village and Internet connections in every town.
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她打了一通电话给我。
I had a telephone call from her.
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我昨晚跟他通电话了。
I talked to him on the telephone yesterday night.
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那通电话是引他离开房子的一个小把戏。
The phone call was a trick to get him out of the house.