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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Two_Cell_Phones.png/220px-Two_Cell_Phones.png)
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).
Noun
[edit]handphone (plural handphones)
- (Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea, Hawaii) A mobile phone.
- (rare, chiefly obsolete) A telephone receiver or handset.
Descendants
[edit]- → Korean: 핸드폰 (haendeupon)
References
[edit]- “hand phone, noun.” under “hand, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “handphone, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.