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Mythic Mandarin

开通 (kāi tōng): meaning and stroke order

开通 (kāi tōng) means to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to….

开通

Simplified
开通
Traditional
開通
Pinyin
kāi tōng · kāi tong

Stroke order of 开通

开

  • kāi to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 開

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 开通

  1. kāi tōng Traditional 開通
    • to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to subscribe to (a members-only service)
  2. kāi tong Traditional 開通
    • open-minded

Radicals of the characters

开
Radical 廾 (Kangxi radical 55) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 廾 below
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).