handphone

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handphone

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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”).

noun handphones · hand phone · hand-phone

Brunei, Hawaii, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore A mobile phone.
obsolete, rare A telephone receiver or handset.

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@misc{handphone_2026,
  title = {handphone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/handphone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}