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话筒

huà tǒng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 話筒

话筒 (huà tǒng) means "microphone". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 话筒 means

1. microphone
2. (telephone) receiver; handset
3. megaphone
4. (fig.) mouthpiece; spokesperson

The characters in 话筒

• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words
• 筒tǒngtube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)

Example sentences

• 她用手捂住了电话的话筒。
  Tā yòng shǒu wǔzhù le diànhuà de huàtǒng.
  She covered the mouthpiece of the phone with her hand.
• 冷不防，老师让每个国家的学生用话筒给大家讲一下自己来哈尔滨的原因。
  Lěngbufáng, lǎoshī ràng měi gè guójiā de xuésheng yòng huàtǒng gěi dàjiā jiǎng yīxià zìjǐ lái Hā'ěrbīn de yuányīn.
  Without warning, the teachers ask students from each country to take the microphone and explain to everyone their reasons for coming to Harbin.

Where 话筒 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · huā–Hù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read huà tǒng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.