通 tōng
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 甬 path
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
通话
tōnghuà
to talk on the phone
Characters in this word
话 huà
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 舌 tongue
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我们通话了将近两个小时，终于把误会解释清楚了。 Wǒmen tōnghuà le jiāngjìn liǎng ge xiǎoshí, zhōngyú bǎ wùhuì jiěshì qīngchu le. We talked on the phone for nearly two hours and finally cleared up the misunderstanding.
- 通话时请把手机音量调大一点。 Tōnghuà shí qǐng bǎ shǒujī yīnliàng tiáo dà yìdiǎn. Please turn the phone volume up a bit during the call.
- 他们每天晚上都要通话，聊聊一天发生的事。 Tāmen měi tiān wǎnshang dōu yào tōnghuà, liáoliao yì tiān fāshēng de shì. They talk on the phone every night about what happened during the day.
Related words
- 交通 jiāotōng transportation; traffic
- 普通 pǔtōng ordinary
- 普通话 pǔtōnghuà Standard Mandarin
- 通 tōng to be open; to connect
- 通过 tōngguò to pass; through
- 通知 tōngzhī to notify; notice
- 通常 tōngcháng usually
- 通信 tōngxìn communication; to correspond
- 通知书 tōngzhīshū written notice
- 沟通 gōutōng to communicate
- 流通 liútōng to circulate
- 通用 tōngyòng general use; universal