撥個輪
simp拨个轮but6 go3 leon4but6 go3 leon2bō gè lún
English
- to make a phone call
- to call somebody on the telephone, an old term used in the age of rotary pulse-dialing telephone; literally: to dial the wheel
粵語 — Cantonese
- 打電話嘅舊俗稱。以前嘅電話係用脈衝式撥號盤送出接駁信號,撥號盤係一個圓形嘅輪盤,有10個窿,俾人擺隻手指入去想撥嘅數字嘅窿再轉動。
Examples
你到左樓下就撥個輪過我,我嚟接你。
Call me when you arrive downstairs, I'll come down to pick you up.
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk