通 (tōng): meaning and stroke order
通 (tōng) means to go through, to know well, (suffix) expert, to connect, to communicate, open, to clear.
通
- Simplified
- 通
- Traditional
- 通 (same form)
- Pinyin
- tōng · tòng
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Stroke order of 通
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)
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Meaning of 通
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tōng
- to go through
- to know well
- (suffix) expert
- to connect
- to communicate
- open
- to clear
- classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
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tòng
- classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 通
- 通知 tōng zhī to notify; to inform
- 普通 pǔ tōng common; ordinary
- 想通 xiǎng tōng to figure out; to realize
- 普通话 pǔ tōng huà Mandarin (common language); Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language)
- 开通 kāi tōng to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to subscribe to (a members-only service)
- 交通 jiāo tōng to be connected; traffic
- 通勤 tōng qín commuting
- 沟通 gōu tōng to join; to connect; to link up; to communicate
通 in our stories
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“对着手机做俯卧撑，也算工作？”她怎么也想不通。“银行多好啊，有空调，还不用出汗！”
duìzhe shǒujī zuò fǔwòchēng yě suàn gōngzuò tā zěnme yě xiǎng bù tōng yínháng duō hǎo a yǒu kōngtiáo hái bú yòng chūhàn
"Doing push-ups at a phone counts as a job?" She just couldn't understand it. "The bank was so good—air-conditioning, and no sweating!"
From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 通
- Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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).