英和和英

語源

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”).

名詞

handphone (plural handphones)

1. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, South Korea, Hawaii) A mobile phone.
2. (rare, chiefly obsolete) A telephone receiver or handset.

派生した語

• → Korean: 핸드폰 (haendeupon)

参照

• “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.