电
话

Telephone in Chinese: 电话 (diàn huà)

diàn huà

telephone

HSK 3.0 Level 1Traditional: 電話1 example sentence

Definitions

  1. 1telephone
  2. 2phone call
  3. 3phone number

Stroke order

Watch how to write 电话 stroke by stroke.

电
话

Zhuyin

This word’s pronunciation in Bopomofo.

Learn how to read Zhuyin

ㄉㄧㄢˋ

diàn

ㄉ/ dㄧ/ iㄢ/ anˋ/ fourth tone

ㄏㄨㄚˋ

huà

ㄏ/ hㄨ/ uㄚ/ aˋ/ fourth tone

Simplified & traditional

电话

Simplified

電話

Traditional

Example sentences

See 电话 used in real sentences with pinyin and English translations.

  • 我想给妈妈打电话。

    wǒ xiǎng gěi mā ma dǎ diàn huà。

    I want to call my mom.

Spotted a mistake?

Related words

电

diàn

lightning

话

huà

dialect

电脑

diàn nǎo

computer

电视

diàn shì

television

电影

diàn yǐng

movie

说话

shuō huà

to speak

电梯

diàn tī

elevator

电子

diàn zǐ

electronic

对话

duì huà

to talk (with sb)

笑话

xiào hua

joke

电池

diàn chí

battery

电台

diàn tái

transmitter-receiver

Appears in

HSK 3.0 Level 1 vocabulary list

Learn 电话 with spaced repetition

Add 电话 (diàn huà) to your review queue and the FSRS algorithm will schedule it exactly when you're about to forget — then meet it again in a short AI-generated story written at your level.

Start learning free

No credit card required · Free tier included