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通话

tōng huà

2-character word Traditional 通話

What 通话 means

1. to hold a conversation
2. to talk over the telephone
3. phone call

The characters in 通话

• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Example sentences

• 我该取消通话吗?
  Wǒ gāi qǔxiāo tōnghuà ma?
  Should I cancel the call?
• 你会讲普通话吗？
  Can you speak Mandarin?
• 您会讲普通话吗？
  Can you speak Mandarin?
• 我明年想学普通话。
  I want to learn Chinese next year.
• 标准汉语又称普通话。
  Standard Chinese is also called Mandarin.
• 上海人普通话说得怎幺样？
  What does Shanghai people's Mandarin sound like?

Words containing 通话

• 普通话pǔ tōng huàPutonghua; standard Mandarin
• 塑料普通话sù liào pǔ tōng huà(colloquial) bad or awkward Mandarin…
• 普通话水平测试Pǔ tōng huà Shuǐ píng Cè shìPutonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for…

Sounds the same

Read tōng huà, tone for tone, but written differently.

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