Where is the nearest telephone box?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
电话亭
telephone booth
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
telephone booth
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 电话亭 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 电话亭 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Telephone booths are as scarce as hen's teeth around here.
Tom ran and ran, until at last he saw the telephone booth.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 电话亭.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 电话亭.
Directly before
- 的电话亭2
- 只电话亭1
- 了电话亭1
- 这儿电话亭1
Directly after
- 电话亭少得1
- 电话亭在1
- 电话亭很少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 电话亭
What does 电话亭 mean in Chinese?
电话亭 (diànhuàtíng) means telephone booth.
How do you pronounce 电话亭?
电话亭 is pronounced diànhuàtíng.
Is 电话亭 an HSK word?
电话亭 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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