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. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate")
- 电 diàn lightning
- 话 huà dialect
Learned around the same time
- 床 chuáng bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张[zhang1])
- 次 cì next in sequence
- 从 cóng from; through; via
- 错 cuò mistake
- 打车 dǎ chē to take a taxi (in town)
- 打开 dǎ kāi to open
- 打球 dǎ qiú to play ball
- 大 dà big; large; great
- 大学 dà xué university; college
- 大学生 dà xué shēng university student; college student
- 到 dào to reach; to arrive