通
通 — tong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 통할 통
- Romanization
- tong
- English
- pass through; common; communicate
- Mandarin
- tōng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ツウ, ツ, トウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- とお.る とお.り -とお.り -どお.り とお.す とお.し -どお.し かよ.う
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #80 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 辵 (162, 7 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 甬
- Unicode
- U+901A
Parts that make up 通
- 甬 종꼭지 용sound 자루 달린 종‘용·통’ 계열의 소리
- ⻌ variant of 辶 네거리와 발가고 오는 일, 길 위의 움직임
How 通 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 通 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 辵, 甬.
Korean example words with 通
- 선통先通 Korean gloss: 미리 알림
- 통래通來 Korean gloss: 가고 오고 함
- 량통兩通 Korean gloss: 거리 따위의 두 가닥
- 통견通絹 Korean gloss: 썩 설피고 얇은 비단
- 통기通寄 Korean gloss: 기별을 보내어 알게 함
- 통폐通弊 Korean gloss: 일반에 두루 있는 폐단
- 각통各通 Korean gloss: 서류나 편지 따위의 각벌
- 통독通讀 Korean gloss: 처음부터 끝까지 훑어 읽음
- 통념通念 Korean gloss: 일반적으로 널리 통하는 개념
- 통례通例 Korean gloss: 일반적으로 통하여 쓰는 전례
- 통기通氣 Korean gloss: 바람이 통함. 또는 그렇게 함
- 통칙通則 Korean gloss: 일반에게 공통으로 적용되는 규칙
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 通
- 通信つうしん correspondence; communication; transmission
- 見通しみとおし unobstructed view; perspective; visibility
- 共通きょうつう common; shared; mutual
- 交通こうつう traffic; transportation; communication
- 通貨つうか currency
- 通常つうじょう usual; ordinary; normal
- 普通ふつう normal; ordinary; regular
- 通産省つうさんしょう Ministry of International Trade and Industry (1949-2001); MITI
- 流通りゅうつう circulation (of money, goods, etc.); distribution; circulation (of air, water, etc.)
- 通算つうさん total; sum; aggregate
- 通商つうしょう commerce; trade
- 通りどおり in accordance with; following; roughly
Characters sharing the phonetic 甬
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “통”
Other hanja with radical 辵
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences