Chinese symbol for “telephone”
电话
diàn huà
Traditional: 電話
telephone; measure word: 部 (bù); phone call; measure word: 通 (tōng)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for telephone is 电话 (diàn huà), defined as: telephone; measure word: 部 (bù); phone call; measure word: 通 (tōng); phone number.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “telephone”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 电话.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 电影 (電影) | diàn yǐng | movie; film; measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 电视 (電視) | diàn shì | television; TV; 台 (tái),部 (bù) |
| 电子 (電子) | diàn zǐ | electronic; electron (particle physics) |
| 电脑 (電腦) | diàn nǎo | computer; 台 (tái) |
| 电视台 (電視台) | diàn shì tái | television station |
| 的话 (的話) | de huà | if (coming after a conditional clause) |
| 说话 (說話) | shuō huà | to speak; to say |
| 讲话 (講話) | jiǎng huà | a speech; to speak |
See also: Japanese symbol for “telephone”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.