Answer the telephone, will you?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
接听
to answer the phone
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to answer the phone
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 接听 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 接听 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Employees of the call centre answer all customer service calls.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 接听.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 接听.
Directly before
- 你接听1
- 负责接听1
Directly after
- 接听一下1
- 接听所有1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 接听
What does 接听 mean in Chinese?
接听 (jiētīng) means to answer the phone.
How do you pronounce 接听?
接听 is pronounced jiētīng.
Is 接听 an HSK word?
接听 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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