通话

tōng huà

HSK 3.0 Level 6 Verb Common

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Definitions

1. to talk over the telephone
2. phone call

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Word relationships

Register variants

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• 致电 zhì diàn 致电 zhì diàn to phone 正式场合或书面语: to phone

Related words

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• 打电话 dǎ diàn huà 打电话 dǎ diàn huà to make a telephone call 具体行为；更常用作动宾结构，强调拨打电话的动作: to make a telephone call

Usage notes

Collocations

常说“跟/和/与…通话”，如“我跟妈妈通话了”

Common mistakes

“通话”侧重双方交流，只说“打电话”可能只是拨出未接通，不强调交谈

Example Sentences

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我正在跟朋友 通话 。

I am talking with a friend on the phone.

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Words Containing 通话

• 普通话 普通话 pǔ tōng huà: Mandarin (common language)
• 塑料普通话 塑料普通话 sù liào pǔ tōng huà: (coll.) Mandarin Chinese spoken with a thick regional accent
• 普通话水平测试 普通话水平测试 pǔ tōng huà shuǐ píng cè shì: Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994

Child Words of 通话

• 话 话 huà: dialect
• 通 通 tòng: classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)