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Mythic Mandarin

沟通 (gōu tōng): meaning and stroke order

沟通 (gōu tōng) means to join; to connect; to link up, to communicate.

沟通

Simplified
沟通
Traditional
溝通
Pinyin
gōu tōng

Stroke order of 沟通

沟

  • gōu ditch; gutter
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 溝

Stroke by stroke

通

  • tōng to go through; to know well
  • tòng classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 沟通

  1. gōu tōng Traditional 溝通
    • to join; to connect; to link up
    • to communicate

Radicals of the characters

沟
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 勾 on the right
通
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 11 strokes · built from 辶 and 甬

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).