I had a telephone call from her.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
通电话
to phone sb up
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to phone sb up
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 通电话 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 通电话 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I talked to him on the telephone yesterday night.
The phone call was a trick to get him out of the house.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 通电话.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 通电话.
Directly before
- 那通电话1
- 一通电话1
- 他通电话1
Directly after
- 通电话是1
- 通电话给1
- 通电话了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 通电话
What does 通电话 mean in Chinese?
通电话 (tōngdiànhuà) means to phone sb up.
How do you pronounce 通电话?
通电话 is pronounced tōngdiànhuà.
Is 通电话 an HSK word?
通电话 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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