Grammar · Chapter 12
号码: phone numbers
手机号码 · 电话号码 · 房间号
号码 is a number you call or look up: 手机号码 is a mobile number, 电话号码 a phone number. In speech it's often cut to 号: 手机号, 房间号. A number is read digit by digit, and 一 in it is said yāo so it isn't mixed up with 七 qī: 一三八 is yāo sān bā.
Examples
- 你的手机号码是多少？ Nǐ de shǒujī hàomǎ shì duōshǎo? What's your mobile number?
- 他的电话号码我忘了。 Tā de diànhuà hàomǎ wǒ wàng le. I've forgotten his phone number.
- 我的房间号是一零八。 Wǒ de fángjiān hào shì yāo líng bā. My room number is 108.