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通话

phone call; to talk by phone

通话
tōnghuà1st tone
Pinyin
tōnghuà
Strokes
18
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 通话

通话 is written with 18 strokes (通: 10, 话: 8). The animation replays automatically.

Usage

Formal term for a call; used in 语音通话 (voice call) and 视频通话 (video call).

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通话 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

今年,有一些议员提出“安静天空法”,想让政府禁止飞机上的语音通话。

This year, some lawmakers proposed the "Quiet Skies Act," hoping to make the government ban voice calls on planes.

Fast Plane Wi-Fi Brings Noisy Work Calls

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