119

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English

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Etymology

Variant of 911, q.v.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

119

  1. The telephone number for law enforcement in Jamaica, Mozambique, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
  2. The telephone number for ambulance services in Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea and on Taiwan.
    119 handles fires and medical emergencies in Japan and Korea but the police have a separate number, 110.
  3. The telephone number for firefighting assistance in China, Bolivia, Japan, and South Korea.
  4. The telephone number for antiterrorist services in Afghanistan.
  5. (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.

Coordinate terms

  • (Australia) 000
  • (Mongolia) 105
  • (China, Iran) 110
  • (New Zealand) 111
  • (European Union) 112
  • (North America) 911
  • (UK, Ireland) 999

Anagrams

Chinese

Etymology

119 (緊急電話冧巴)／119 (紧急电话冧巴) on the Cantonese Wikipedia.Wikipedia zh-yue

Pronunciation

Proper noun

119

  1. (People's Republic of China, Republic of China) 119: in mainland China (“People's Republic of China”) and Taiwan (“Republic of China”) the emergency telephone number for firefighting
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