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打电话
Meaning
- to make a telephone call
Example sentence
打电话回家！
Call home!
Characters in 打电话
- 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
打 to strike plus 电话 telephone. 打 is the verb for placing a call, and the pair splits: 打个电话, 给他打电话.