通 - Mandarin word #5134

通

tōng

Traditional: 通

#5134 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

to pass through; to communicate; thorough

Stroke order

通

。

He finally passed the exam.

。

Please notify everyone to come to the meeting.

。

This road leads to the city centre.

海hǎi。

This road leads to the seaside.

。

The phone call cannot get through.

通 (tōng) covers passing through and communicating, used in 通过 (tōng guò) "to pass through" and 通知 (tōng zhī) "to notify".

通过

to pass through; to pass (an exam/law); by means of, through

通知

to notify; notification

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 通.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 103.