In the past example, we figured out how to say the Chinese numbers from 1 to 99, and today how about we perceive how to request one’s telephone number.
Dialogue
Liu Fang, what is your phone number? |
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My phone number is 88642510. |
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What is Zhang Jing’s phone number? |
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Her phone number is 53648927. |
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Hello, what is your phone number? |
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My phone number is13751318079, and you? |
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My phone number is 15891160521. |
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Vocabulary
| 电话 | diàn huà | n. phone | |
| 号码 | hào mǎ | n. number | |
| 多少 | duō shǎo | interrogative pronouns, how many or how much |
Expansion
| What is the Chinese emergency number? | |||||||||
| China actually has two emergency numbers: the police emergency number is 110 and the other 120 is for first-aid. | |||||||||
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Grammar
| 1) Asking phone numbers with 多少 (duō shǎo) | ||||||||||||
| 多少 (duō shǎo) means how many or how much in English, and it is a very common question word to use when asking about the phone number, amounts or prices in Chinese.
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| Moreover, here you can change 电话号码 (diàn huà hào mǎ, phone number) to 手机号码 (shǒu jī hào mǎ, mobile number) to ask for one’s mobile phone number. | ||||||||||||
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| 2) Using yāo to refer to 1 in a phone number | ||||||
| In order to avoid confusion of the pronunciation of yī (1) with qī (7) , especially when people are saying the number in a very nosiy environment, many Chinese people prefer to read 1 as yāo in a phone number (In most cases, 1 is still read as yī ). In fact, both yī and yāo are correct to use in a phon number, but yāo is more frequently-used nowadays in mainland China. | ||||||
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