電話

See also: 电话

Chinese

electric; electricity; electrical
 
spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (電話)
simp. (电话)

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese  (でん) () (denwa, telephone).

Pronunciation


Noun

電話

  1. telephone; phone (Classifier: )
    時候電話 [MSC, trad.]
    时候电话 [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ bù zài de shíhou, diànhuà xiǎng le. [Pinyin]
    The phone rang when you weren't here.
  2. telephone call (Classifier: ;  m;  c)
    騷擾電話 / 骚扰电话   sāorǎo diànhuà   nuisance call
    電話 / 电话   Wǒ gěi nǐ dǎ diànhuà.   I'll give you a call.
  3. (colloquial) telephone number
    電話多少 / 电话多少   Nǐ de diànhuà shì duōshǎo?   What's your phone number?

Usage notes

Note that in Mandarin, the noun 電話电话 (diànhuà, “telephone”) is used in any verb involving a phone, such as 打電話打电话 (dǎ diànhuà, “to make a phone call”), 回電話回电话 (huídiànhuà, “to call back”), 接電話接电话 (jiē diànhuà, “to answer the phone”), etc.

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Derived terms

Descendants

See also


Japanese

Kanji in this term
でん
Grade: 2

Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

Wasei kango, from (den, electric) + (wa, conversation). See also 話す (hanasu).

Pronunciation

Noun

電話 (hiragana でんわ, rōmaji denwa)

  1. telephone
     (でん) () ()
    denwa o hiku
    to install a telephone
     (でん) () ()
    denwa ni deru
    to answer the phone
  2. telephone call; phone call; call
     (でん) () ()ける
    denwa o kakeru
    to make a call
     (でん) () ()かって ()
    denwa ga kakatte kuru
    to receive a call
     (でん) () ()
    denwa o kiru
    to hang up

Descendants

Compounds

Verb

電話する (hiragana でんわする, rōmaji denwa suru)

  1. to make a phone call; to telephone; to call

Usage notes

  • In order to imply whom one is calling as is done in English with the preposition to in make a phone call to or by the objective case as him in the sentence I called him, the Japanese use (ni):
     (わたし) (かれ) (でん) ()するつもりだ。
    Watashi wa kare ni denwa suru tsumori da.
    I'm going to call him.

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Chinese: 電話电话 (diànhuà)
    • Bouyei: dianqhuaq
    • Lü: ᦎᦶᧃᧈᦧᦱᧈ (ṫaen1ẋvaa1)
    • Zhuang: denva
  • Korean: 전화 (jeonhwa)
  • Okinawan: 電話 (でぃんわ, dinwa)
  • Vietnamese: điện thoại

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

電話 (jeonhwa) (hangeul 전화)

  1. Hanja form? of 전화 (telephone).

Okinawan

Noun

電話 (hiragana でぃんわ, romaji dinwa)

  1. telephone

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word

Noun

電話

  1. Hán tự form of điện thoại (telephone).
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