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通話 [ichi1,news1,nf07]
つうわ [ichi1,news1,nf07]
1. [n,vs,vi]
▶ telephone call
▶ speaking over the telephone
▶ (Internet) voice call
▶ videoconference call
2. [ctr]
《used to determine a charge》
▶ counter for telephone calls of a set duration

Conjugations


History:
14. A 2024-03-25 01:26:12  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I don't think it's a separate sense.
  Diff:
@@ -22,6 +22,2 @@
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<field>&internet;</field>
-<gloss>voice call</gloss>
-<gloss>videoconference session</gloss>
+<gloss>(Internet) voice call</gloss>
+<gloss>videoconference call</gloss>
@@ -30,0 +27 @@
+<s_inf>used to determine a charge</s_inf>
13. A* 2024-03-23 05:09:04  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Obviously being used for more than telephone calls. I wondered about just broadening sense 1, but then thought maybe a new sense would be better.
  Diff:
@@ -22 +22,6 @@
-<gloss>(Internet) voice call</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<field>&internet;</field>
+<gloss>voice call</gloss>
+<gloss>videoconference session</gloss>
12. A* 2024-02-22 05:33:28  Nicolas Maia
  Comments:
This also seems to be used with the meaning of call as in a (video) meeting, at least by Google. On Google Meet it says 〇〇さんがこの通話に参加しています。
11. A 2022-12-15 03:54:36  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
10. A* 2022-12-14 07:33:22  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
meikyo has [vt,vi] but the rest of the refs are just [vi]

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│  通話 │ 2,195,154 │ 99.8% │
│ を通話 │     5,380 │  0.2% │
╰─ーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -18,0 +19 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
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