Make a phone call in Chinese (Mandarin): 打电话 (dǎdiànhuà)
打电话
dǎdiànhuà
make a phone call
- Simplified
- 打电话
- Traditional
- 打電話
- Pinyin
- dǎdiànhuà
- Typed as
- dadianhua
Use it in a sentence
我打电话给妈妈。
我打電話給媽媽。
I call Mom on the phone.
The characters in 打电话
打
To hit; in many words it just means to do something. 扌 (hand) is on the left.
5 strokes
电 / 電
Electricity.
5 strokes
话 / 話
Speech, words. 讠 (speech) is on the left.
8 strokes
电话 is "electric speech", a telephone, and 打电话 is to make a call. Hello on the phone is 喂 (wéi).
More examples with 打电话
爷爷给我打电话。
爺爺給我打電話。
Yéye gěi wǒ dǎ diànhuà.
Grandpa calls me.
我在打电话。
我在打電話。
Wǒ zài dǎ diànhuà.
I'm on the phone.
How to write 打电话 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
打 5 strokes
电 5 strokes
话 8 strokes
In Traditional characters:
電 13 strokes
話 13 strokes
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