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handphone.

A mobile phone.

9 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A mobile phone.

    Brunei · Hawaii · Indonesia · Malaysia · Myanmar · Singapore · South-Korea
  2. A telephone receiver or handset.

    obsolete · rare
Where this word comes 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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.