来 电

láidiàn

verbnounHSK 7-9

Meaning

incoming telephone call (or telegram)
to phone in; to send in a telegram
to have an instant attraction to sb

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(of electricity, after an outage) to come back

Example

电话运营商提示来电人等候接通。

The telephone operator asked the caller to hold on until a connection was made.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

láiHSK 17 strokesto come diànHSK 15 strokeslightning

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