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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

handphone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English

Syllables
hand-phone
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mobile phone.

noun

A telephone receiver or handset.

Obsolete

Etymology

From hand + phone. For the sense of mobile phone, compare with Chinese 手機 /手机 (shǒujī, literally “hand machine”) and Korean 손전화 (sonjeonhwa, literally “hand telephone”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

handphones (plural) hand phone (alternative) hand-phone (alternative)

Questions

What does handphone mean?
A mobile phone.
Where does handphone come from?
From hand + phone. For the sense of mobile phone, compare with Chinese 手機 /手机 (shǒujī, literally “hand machine”) and Korean 손전화 (sonjeonhwa, literally “hand telephone”).

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