通
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to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #94 U+901A
How 通 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 (semantic, “walk”) + 甬 (phonetic, yǒng)
components: 辶 甬
How to remember it
communicate · Heisig RSH #1117
chop-rack + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 甬
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 甬 (yǒng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甬 sound component | yǒng | path; river in Ningbo; Ningbo |
| 痛 | tòng | ache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly |
| 勇 | yǒng | brave, courageous, fierce |
| 涌 | yǒng | to surge up, to bubble up, to gush forth |
| 桶 | tǒng | bucket, pail, tub; can, cask, keg |
| 诵 | sòng | to chant, to recite, to repeat, to read aloud |
| 俑 | yǒng | wooden figure buried with dead |
| 蛹 | yǒng | pupa, chrysalis |
| 捅 | tǒng | to jab, to poke |
| 恿 | yǒng | to instigate, to incite, to alarm |
| 埇 | yǒng | the name of a bridge |
| 踊 | yǒng | to leap |
| 勈 | yǒng | brave |
Words containing 通
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大通区 | Dà tōng Qū | Datong, a district of Huainan City 淮南市[Huai2 nan2 Shi4], Anhui |
| 大通县 | Dà tōng Xiàn | see 大通回族土族自治縣|大通回族土族自治县[Da4 tong1 Hui2 zu2 Tu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |
| 一大通 | yī dà tōng | (coll.) a whole lot of ...; an endless stream of ... (used in relation to excessive or ted… |
| 通山县 | Tōng shān Xiàn | Tongshan, a county in Xianning City 咸寧市|咸宁市[Xian2 ning2 Shi4], Hubei |
| 中国通 | Zhōng guó tōng | China watcher; an expert on China; an old China hand |
| 通海县 | Tōng hǎi Xiàn | Tonghai, a county in Yuxi City 玉溪市[Yu4 xi1 Shi4], Yunnan |
| 行不通 | xíng bu tōng | won't work; will get (you) nowhere |
| 通化县 | Tōng huà Xiàn | Tonghua, a county in Tonghua City 通化市[Tong1 hua4 Shi4], Jilin |
| 通化市 | Tōng huà Shì | Tonghua, prefecture-level city in Jilin Province 吉林省[Ji2 lin2 Sheng3] |
| 人行地下通道 | rén xíng dì xià tōng dào | pedestrian underpass |
| 不通 | bù tōng | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical |
| 大通 | Dà tōng | see 大通區|大通区[Da4 tong1 Qu1]; see 大通回族土族自治縣|大通回族土族自治县[Da4 tong1 Hui2 zu2 Tu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xi… |
| 通人 | tōng rén | learned person; person of wide knowledge and sound scholarship |
| 通县 | Tōng xiàn | Tong county in Beijing |
| 通山 | Tōng shān | see 通山縣|通山县[Tong1 shan1 Xian4] |
| 通水 | tōng shuǐ | to have running water (in a house etc) |
| 利通区 | Lì tōng Qū | Litong, a district of Wuzhong City 吳忠市|吴忠市[Wu2 zhong1 Shi4], Ningxia |
| 通心面 | tōng xīn miàn | macaroni |
| 通学 | tōng xué | to attend school as a day student |
| 上海交通大学 | Shàng hǎi Jiāo tōng Dà xué | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |