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to be connected / traffic / transportation / communications / liaison
HSK 2
Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech
HSK 2
common / ordinary / general / average
HSK 2
regular; usual; normal / usually; normally
HSK 3
to notify / to inform / notice / notification / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to pass through; to get through / to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation) / to pass (a test) / by means of; through; via
HSK 2
to correspond (by letter, email etc) / to send or receive messages through telecommunications
HSK 3
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  *通* | 通* | *通
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
HSK 2
to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call
HSK 6
to be obstructed / to be blocked up / to be impassable / to make no sense / to be illogical
HSK 6
unobstructed; unimpeded; free-flowing; smooth
HSK 6
to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable
HSK 5
written notice
HSK 4
cartoon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
to open to traffic (e.g. new bridge, rail line etc) / (of a locality) to have a transportation service / (Tw) to commute
HSK 7-9
to intercommunicate / to interoperate
to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to subscribe to (a members-only service)
HSK 6
means of transportation / vehicle
transport costs
to circulate; to distribute / circulation; distribution
HSK 5
to join; to connect; to link up / to communicate
HSK 5
to inform / to notify / to announce / circular / bulletin / (scientific) journal
HSK 6
the name of various contactless smart cards, notably Yikatong (mainly for public transport in Beijing) and iPASS (mainly for public transport in Taiwan)
HSK 7-9
to connect / to put through
HSK 7-9
to display one's remarkable skill or prowess / to give full play to one's brilliant abilities
(communications) channel / thoroughfare / passage
HSK 6
traffic hub
universal; applicable to all (or both) / shared; common
a hint is all that is needed / understanding each other without the need to explain
traffic rules / rules of the road
traffic warden
traffic sign
to order the arrest of sb as criminal / to list as wanted
HSK 7-9
passport
general education
abbr. for 上海交通大學|上海交通大学 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 西安交通大學|西安交通大学 Xia'an Jiaotong University, 國立交通大學|国立交通大学 National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) etc
ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street
HSK 7-9
common / everyday / average
HSK 7-9
to go through; to pass through / to be in general use
HSK 6
(Tw) (computing) communication protocol
everything
instant messaging
roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides
unobstructed; clear / (of writing or thinking) coherent; fluent
HSK 7-9
public transportation card / prepaid transit card / subway pass
traffic light
to join forces / to give full cooperation
to open access / to establish contact / to remove a block / to put through (a phone connection)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) mutual exchange of assistance; to benefit from each other's strengths and make up each other's shortfalls; to reciprocate with material assistance; to scratch each other's back
Bank of Communications
traffic congestion
interoperability (of communications equipment)
to get through to sb on the phone
HSK 7-9
to collude with / to conspire
corresponding author (of an academic paper)
grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom)
all night / throughout the night
HSK 7-9
traffic police
communications / news story / dispatch / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
information and communication technology, ICT
to lead to
HSK 7-9
public transport / mass transit
to adapt to circumstances
to announce; to give notice / announcement
HSK 7-9
Department of Transportation; (PRC) Ministry of Transport
pedestrian underpass
road congestion; traffic jam
culpable driving causing serious damage or injury
fast and abundant (news) / clever / effective
HSK 7-9
to act in collusion (idiom)
traffic accident / car crash
flexible / accommodating
Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994
local train / ordinary vehicle
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
everything is going smoothly (idiom)
common language / lingua franca
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) (telecommunications)
Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙 published in 1624
data communication
penetrating
lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head) / I don't understand a word (idiom) / it's all Greek to me
China Unicom
bottom bracket shell (in a bicycle frame) / (Buddhism) the five supernatural powers (abbr. for 五神通)
to go smoothly / prosperous / going well
Nantong, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
to be proficient in / to master (a subject)
HSK 7-9
Southwest Jiaotong University
commuting
all / entire / complete
HSK 7-9
flux
ordinary / mediocre / nothing special
lit. the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing his own special talent (idiom) / fig. (of each individual in a group) to give full play to one's unique capabilities
China Mobile (PRC state telecommunications company)
very red / red through and through / to blush (deep red)
HSK 6
admission notice (issued by a university)
to unblock / to dredge / to clear the way / to get things flowing / to facilitate / to mediate / to lobby / to explicate (a text)
HSK 7-9
to collude / to collaborate / to gang up
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