打电话 dǎ diàn huà
HSK 1 word · traditional 打電話
Meanings
- to make a telephone call
Characters
- 打 dǎ: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate")
- 电 diàn: lightning
- 话 huà: dialect
Example sentences
打电话回家！
Call home!
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我在打电话。
I'm on the phone.
Tatoeba #10695961 by GlossaMatik (CC BY 2.0 FR)
打电话。
Make a call.
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Meanings and readings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).