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电话
Meaning
- telephone
- phone call
- phone number
Measure word
部 bù
Example sentence
电话正在响。
The telephone is ringing.
Characters in 电话
电 electricity plus 话 speech. 打电话 uses 打, to strike, the same verb Chinese uses for making a call, playing ball and hailing a taxi.