電話
でんわ · denwa · JLPT N5 · noun
telephone
☎️ 電話 = electric + talk: talk carried by electricity
電 (den) means electricity and 話 (wa) means talk or speech, so a telephone is literally electric talk. 電 also appears in 電車 (densha, electric train), and 話 in 会話 (kaiwa, conversation).