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电话亭
diàn huà tíng



电话亭
telephone booth


Definitions

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电话亭
     1. Simplified form of 電話亭
電話亭diànhuàtíng
     1. n. telephone booth
     2. n. (C, zh, Telephony)
Components
     1. Simplified form of 電
     1. electricity
     1. Simplified form of 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
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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