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话筒 huàtǒng “microphone” in Chinese

Traditional 話筒

What 话筒 means

  1. microphone
  2. (telephone) receiver
  3. handset
  4. megaphone
  5. (fig.) mouthpiece
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • spokesperson

How to say 话筒

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale话huà4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale筒tǒng3rd tone, dipping

话筒 in a sentence

  1. 她用手捂住了电话的话筒。

    Tā yòng shǒu wǔzhù le diànhuà de huàtǒng.

    She covered the mouthpiece of the phone with her hand.

    Sentence #8775850 from Tatoeba

How 话筒 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 话 (huà) with each of its parts in a different colour
话huàdialect
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yán
  • 舌tongue · shé

Memory aidSpeech 讠 from the tongue 舌: talk, words.

The character 筒 (tǒng) with each of its parts in a different colour
筒tǒngtube
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhúMeaning part
  • 同same · tóngSound part

⺮ hints at the meaning (bamboo); 同 (tóng) hints at the sound. Compare it with tǒng.

How to write 话筒

话 8 strokes · 筒 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

话筒 (huàtǒng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 话筒 (huàtǒng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 话筒

Words with 话

电话diànhuà · telephone打电话dǎ diànhuà · to make a phone call说话shuōhuà · to speak的话dehuà · if (ends a conditional clause)对话duìhuà · dialogue笑话xiàohua · joke普通话pǔtōnghuà · Mandarin废话fèihuà · nonsense实话shíhuà · truth神话shénhuà · legend

More words: Science & Technology

固体gùtǐ · solid (matter)故障gùzhàng · fault航天hángtiān · spaceflight合成héchéng · to synthesise火箭huǒjiàn · rocket火药huǒyào · gunpowder尖端jiānduān · cutting-edge结晶jiéjīng · crystal

FAQs

话筒 (huàtǒng) means “microphone” or “(telephone) receiver”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huàtǒng: huà with a 4th tone, then tǒng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 话筒 is written 話筒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huatong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 话筒 from the suggestions. Typing huatong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
话筒 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.