回电话 diànhuà

回电话 diànhuà

  • 回+电话 huí diànhuà,  to call back
  • 回 , to return, to go back (to a place)
    • meaning radical: 囗(wéi)(encircle, surround; not the 口 indicating mouth)
  • 电话, phone call, phone, telephone
    • 电 diàn electricity; electric; electronic; the character 电(traditional: 電) originally meant lightning. (see picture below)
    • 话 huà, language; dialect; speech, talk. 说话(to talk, 话 as the general object to verb 说), 说上海话(Shanghai dialect), etc..
      • meaning radical: 讠(言)(radical of speech)