<p>Nowadays Chinese girls prefer using WeChat to making phone calls or texting. 
I recommend you to install this popular app and tell Chinese girls "加我微信吧" or "你微信号是多少？我想加你". </p>

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2014-11-29T15:23:18.277Z
Not an answer to the original question.
Wang Dingwei
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2014-08-09T00:47:24.853Z
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OhLook
<p><em>留个电话 (号码)</em></p>

<p>lit. leave a phone (number) - but it means the same as 'let me get your number'.</p>

<p>电话 means phone but can also mean phone number by extension - 号码 means number as in phone number, house number, etc. but that's optional here (hence the parenthesis above).</p>

<p>'shu' (数) on the other hand - as you wrote above - means number as in 1-10 but cannot be extended to other things.</p>

<p>So you could say: 美女，留个电话 but maybe you should be asking for their weixin (aka. wechat) instead...</p>

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2014-08-11T04:53:33.340Z
And this is downvoted why?
Mou某
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2014-11-05T03:53:22.767Z
Upvoted. Strange things happen sometimes....
Wang Dingwei
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2014-08-08T23:10:42.807Z
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Mou某
<p>I assume you want ask number for dating purpose. </p>

<p>I don't think this is a Chinese language problem. The difficulty is not how to ask but when to ask.</p>

<p>"number" should be translated into "号" but not "数" here.</p>

<p>You may say "我能留一下你的手机号吗？"(May I take down your phone number?). However, the more popular way in China is to ask their to add your WeChat(<a href="http://www.wechat.com/en/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.wechat.com/en/</a>).</p>

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2014-08-08T23:10:01.647Z
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wuyefeibao
<p>In my Chinese class we haven't really discussed how to ask people for their number, only business cards "Zhao pian" what would be the proper way to ask a girl for a number? I am thinking "wo keyi you shu" with the vocabulary that I do know.</p>

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How to ask girl for number?
# How to ask girl for number?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-08)

In my Chinese class we haven't really discussed how to ask people for their number, only business cards "Zhao pian" what would be the proper way to ask a girl for a number? I am thinking "wo keyi you shu" with the vocabulary that I do know.

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### Answer by username_4 on 2014-08-08. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

I assume you want ask number for dating purpose.

I don't think this is a Chinese language problem. The difficulty is not how to ask but when to ask.

"number" should be translated into "号" but not "数" here.

You may say "我能留一下你的手机号吗？"(May I take down your phone number?). However, the more popular way in China is to ask their to add your WeChat(<http://www.wechat.com/en/>).


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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-09. Score: 5

Nowadays Chinese girls prefer using WeChat to making phone calls or texting.
I recommend you to install this popular app and tell Chinese girls "加我微信吧" or "你微信号是多少？我想加你".

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Not an answer to the original question.  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2014-08-08. Score: 3

*留个电话 (号码)*

lit. leave a phone (number) - but it means the same as 'let me get your number'.

电话 means phone but can also mean phone number by extension - 号码 means number as in phone number, house number, etc. but that's optional here (hence the parenthesis above).

'shu' (数) on the other hand - as you wrote above - means number as in 1-10 but cannot be extended to other things.

So you could say: 美女，留个电话 but maybe you should be asking for their weixin (aka. wechat) instead...

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: And this is downvoted why?  
> **username_2**: Upvoted. Strange things happen sometimes....  

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