handphone

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hand

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Mandarin:

手机

pinyin:

shǒu jī

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noun

  1. a mobile phone or smartphone

    2. If handphones continue to be abused as a tool for crime, the benchmark sentences for such offences may have to be increased, warned a district judge yesterday ... "The handphone was invented for good use ... (Now) it has turned into an instrument of crime."

    — 2016 October 29, Kelly Ng (also quoting Low Wee Ping). Today, "Man jailed 24 weeks for taking upskirt videos". p.8