Chinese

電話

diànhuà
telephone; phone (Classifier: 部 m c)
  • TOCFL 1
  • 电话

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Origin

Wasei kango (和(わ)製(せい)漢(かん)語(ご)), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 電(でん)話(わ) (denwa) (Liu et al., 1984; Huang, 2020), first attested in 《遊歷日本圖經》 by Fu Yunlong in 1889 (Huang, 2020).

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Lineage

  • borrowedJapanese電
  • characterChinese電 “lightning”
    • meaningChinese雨 “rain (Classifier: 陣／阵; 場／场)”
    • soundChinese申 “original form of 電／电 (diàn, “lightning”)”
  • characterChinese話 “words; talk; what somebody says (Classifier: 句 m mn)”
    • meaningChinese言 “to say; to speak; to talk”
    • soundChinese𠯑 “to block the mouth”

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