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你的电话号码是多少?What is your phone number?
nǐ de diàn huà hào mǎ shì duō shǎo?
我的电话号码是5534688。wǒ de diàn huà hào mǎ shì wǔ wǔ sān sì liù bā bā.
My phone number is 5534688.

Dialogue

1)A:
liúfāng,dediànhuàhàoshìduōshǎo

Liu Fang, what is your phone number?

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B:88642510
dediànhuàhàoshìliùèrlíng

My phone number is 88642510.

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A:
zhāngjìngdediànhuàhàoshìduōshǎo

What is Zhang Jing's phone number?

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B:53648927
dediànhuàhàoshìsānliùjiǔèr

Her phone number is 53648927.

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2)A:
hǎo,dediànhuàhàoshìduōshǎo

Hello, what is your phone number?

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B:13751318079
dediànhuàhàoshìyāosānyāosānyāolíngjiǔ,ne?

My phone number is13751318079, and you?

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A:15891160521
dediànhuàhàoshìyāojiǔyāoyāoliùlíngèryāo

My phone number is 15891160521.

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Vocabulary

电话diàn huàn. phone
号码hào mǎn. number
多少duō shǎointerrogative pronouns, how many or how much

Expansion

What is the Chinese emergency number?
China actually has two emergency numbers: the police emergency number is 110 and the other 120 is for first-aid.
Phone numberPīn yīnNotes
110yāo-yāo-língpolice emergency number
120yāo-èr-língfirst-aid phone number
 
 

Grammar

1) Asking phone numbers with 多少 (duō shǎo)
多少 (duō shǎo) means how many or how much in English, and it is a very common question word to use when asking about the phone number, amounts or prices in Chinese.

For example:

To ask for phone numbers:你的电话号码是多少?
nǐ de diàn huà hào mǎ shì duō shǎo?
(lit.) Your phone number is how many?
To ask for amounts:多少人?
duō shǎo rén?
(lit.) How many people?
To ask for prices:多少钱?
duō shǎo qián?
(lit.) How much money?
Moreover, here you can change 电话号码 (diàn huà hào mǎ, phone number) to 手机号码 (shǒu jī hào mǎ, mobile number) to ask for one's mobile phone number.
你的手机号码是多少?
nǐ de shǒu jī hào mǎ shì duō shǎo?
(lit.) Your mobile phone number is how many?
2) Using yāo to refer to 1 in a phone number
In order to avoid confusion of the pronunciation of yī (1) with qī (7) , especially when people are saying the number in a very nosiy environment, many Chinese people prefer to read 1 as yāo in a phone number (In most cases, 1 is still read as yī ). In fact, both yī and yāo are correct to use in a phon number, but yāo is more frequently-used nowadays in mainland China.
Phone numberPīn yīn
576411881wǔ qī liù sì yāo yāo bā bā yāo
711631845qī yāo yāo liù sān yāo bā sì wǔ