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打电话

diàn huà to make a telephone call
(loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [da3]
a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以后 "since then")
  diàn lightning / electricity / electric (bound form) / to get (or give) an electric shock / phone call or telegram etc / to send via telephone or telegram etc
  diàn huà telephone / CL: / phone call / CL: / phone number
   huà dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:,,,,
   huà old variant of
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