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电话亭diàn huà tíng
telephone booth
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
电话亭 | ||
1. Simplified form of 電話亭 | ||
電話亭 | diànhuàtíng | |
1. n. telephone booth | ||
2. n. (C, zh, Telephony) | ||
Components | ||
电 | ||
1. Simplified form of 電 | ||
電 | ||
1. electricity | ||
话 | ||
1. Simplified form of 話 | ||
話 | huà, huǎ | |
1. words; talk; what somebody says | ||
他 的 每 一 句 話 - every single word they said | ||
話 不能 說 得de 太 滿 - | ||
2. story; tale | ||
3. dialect; language | ||
四川話 - Sichuanese dialect | ||
越南話 - Vietnamese language | ||
4. to talk about; to discuss | ||
話別 - to say goodbye | ||
話.家常 - to chit-chat; to talk about daily lives | ||
5. (Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Min Bei, Wu) to say; to refer to; to talk about | ||
使乜 話 俾 佢 聽 呢。 - What do you need to tell him/her for. | ||
話 緊 佢 自己 - talking about himself/herself | ||
你 快啲 話 我 知 發生sang1 咩 事。 - Quickly tell me what happened. | ||
都 話 喇! - What did I tell you? | ||
6. (Cantonese, transitive) to tell (someone something) | ||
我 搵 人 知 咩 嚟 再 話 你哋 知。 - I'll find someone who knows what it is and then report back to you guys. | ||
7. (Cantonese, Hakka, Gan, Wu) to tell someone off; to scold | ||
唔 話 佢 呢,佢 就 會wui5 繼續 做 落去。 - If you don't tell him off, he will continue to do it. | ||
8. (Cantonese) to think; to feel; to consider; to say | ||
你 話 點算 好? - What do you say we should do? | ||
你 話 邊個 會 抵 啲 呢? - Which one do you say is the thriftier choice? | ||
9. (Cantonese) (Sentence-final particle used to ask someone to repeat previous information.) | ||
頭先 你 叫 我 做 咩 㗎 話waa6-2? - What did you want me to do just now? | ||
幾多 錢 話waa6-2? - How much did you say it was? | ||
10. (Cantonese) (quotative:) that | ||
未 試 過 話 唔 塞sak1 嘅 - in my experience it's never not been in a jam | ||
噉 就 唔使 話 熱 得滯。 - This can avoid it being too hot. | ||
11. (ACG) episode | ||
亭 | tíng | |
1. (historical) inn | ||
2. pavilion | ||
3. kiosk | ||
電話亭 - telephone booth | ||
4. (obsolete) erect | ||
5. (historical) (a local administrative agency during the Qin and Han dynasties) | ||
亭長 - district leader | ||
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diàn huà tíng
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