- 电话 diànhuà, telephone, phone call
- 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..
- radical: 讠(言)(radical of speech）
