打电话 (dǎ diàn huà) is a Chinese word meaning “to make a telephone call”.
Meanings
- 1to make a telephone call
Characters in 打电话
Related words
话dialect话old variant of 話|话[hua4]打(loanword) dozen打a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate")电话telephone说话to speak打算to plan电影movie; film打开to open电视television; TV打扰to disturb电脑computer