通
2 readings · tap one to hear it
to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 辵 +7
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 通
- Common rank
- #94
- Unicode
- U+901A
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 通 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 meaning “walk” + 甬 sound ()
Components 辶 甬
How to remember it
communicate · Heisig RSH #1117
chop-rack + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 通
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大通区 | Datong, a district of Huainan City 淮南市[Huai2 nan2 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 大通县 | 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 | (coll.) a whole lot of ...; an endless stream of ... (used in relation to excessive or ted… | |
| 通山县 | Tongshan, a county in Xianning City 咸寧市|咸宁市[Xian2 ning2 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 中国通 | China watcher; an expert on China; an old China hand | |
| 通海县 | Tonghai, a county in Yuxi City 玉溪市[Yu4 xi1 Shi4], Yunnan | |
| 行不通 | won't work; will get (you) nowhere | |
| 通化县 | Tonghua, a county in Tonghua City 通化市[Tong1 hua4 Shi4], Jilin | |
| 通化市 | Tonghua, prefecture-level city in Jilin Province 吉林省[Ji2 lin2 Sheng3] | |
| 人行地下通道 | pedestrian underpass | |
| 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | |
| 大通 | 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 | learned person; person of wide knowledge and sound scholarship | |
| 通县 | Tong county in Beijing | |
| 通山 | see 通山縣|通山县[Tong1 shan1 Xian4] | |
| 通水 | to have running water (in a house etc) | |
| 利通区 | Litong, a district of Wuzhong City 吳忠市|吴忠市[Wu2 zhong1 Shi4], Ningxia | |
| 通心面 | macaroni | |
| 通学 | to attend school as a day student | |
| 上海交通大学 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 甬 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甬 sound part | path; river in Ningbo; Ningbo | |
| 痛 | ache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly | |
| 勇 | brave, courageous, fierce | |
| 涌 | to surge up, to bubble up, to gush forth | |
| 桶 | bucket, pail, tub; can, cask, keg | |
| 诵 | to chant, to recite, to repeat, to read aloud | |
| 俑 | wooden figure buried with dead | |
| 蛹 | pupa, chrysalis | |
| 捅 | to jab, to poke | |
| 恿 | to instigate, to incite, to alarm | |
| 埇 | the name of a bridge | |
| 踊 | to leap | |
| 勈 | brave |