Cell phone in Chinese
cell phone · HSK 1
手机
- 手 hand
- 机 machine
Counted with 部: 一部手机
我的手机没电了。 My phone is out of battery.
More words with 手 or 机
How do you say cell phone in Chinese?
Cell phone in Chinese is 手机 (shǒu jī).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.