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HSK
to be connected / traffic / transportation / communications / liaison
HSK 2
common / ordinary / general / average
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 circulate; to distribute / circulation; distribution
HSK 5
to join; to connect; to link up / to communicate
HSK 5
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
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 be proficient in / to master (a subject)
HSK 7-9
cartoon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
to link up / to thread together
HSK 7-9
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 get through to sb on the phone
HSK 7-9
all / entire / complete
HSK 7-9
interlinked / connected / communicating / in communication / accommodating
HSK 7-9
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 open access / to establish contact / to remove a block / to put through (a phone connection)
HSK 7-9
to connect / to put through
HSK 7-9
fast and abundant (news) / clever / effective
HSK 7-9
(Interpol) red notice / abbr. for 紅色通緝令|红色通缉令
to have secret ties with / to be in covert communication with (the enemy etc) / to engage in an illicit sexual relationship / adultery
China Netcom (CNC), former telecommunication service provider in PRC
Pantone color system
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *通* | 通* | *通
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
open-minded
knowledgeable person / know all
to connect / to communicate / to relate / (math.) connected
China United Telecommunications Corporation / aka China Unicom or Unicom / abbr. for 中國聯通|中国联通
connection / link / to link together
remarkable ability / magical power
(onom.) sound of object falling into water / plop
China Mobile Tietong, state-owned telecommunications operator (abbr. for 中移鐵通|中移铁通)
(Cantonese) iron pipe (weapon)
Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005), Chinese sociologist
pragmatic / flexible / to act differently in different situations / to accommodate to circumstances
to lead directly to
to go smoothly / prosperous / going well
our luck is in, everything is going smoothly (idiom)
to circulate / to flow (esp. capital) / to intermingle / to merge / to become assimilated
to collude / to collaborate / to gang up
T-joint / T-piece / T-pipe / three links
flexible / accommodating
won't work / will get (you) nowhere
Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), mobile network system operating in China 1998-2013, branded "Little Smart"
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
universal; applicable to all (or both) / shared; common
lit. not one drop can trickle through (idiom) / fig. (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable
Fujitsu
to bribe
jack-of-all-trades; know-it-all
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
(of a political career) everything is going smoothly (idiom)
to get a good grasp of
Saskatoon city, Saskatchewan, Canada
Yitong Manchurian autonomous county in Siping 四平, Jilin
Bridgestone (tire company)
to comprehend (new things) by analogy
this road is blocked / fig. This method does not work. / Doing this is no good.
to collude with / to conspire
to display one's remarkable skill or prowess / to give full play to one's brilliant abilities
grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom)
everything
light rail / transit system (underground, at street level or elevated) / streetcar / metro / abbr. to 輕軌|轻轨
(idiom) to integrate knowledge from various sources into a deep and coherent understanding of a subject
metro / rapid transit / subway
STO Express, courier service headquartered in Shanghai, founded in 1993
bottom bracket shell (in a bicycle frame) / (Buddhism) the five supernatural powers (abbr. for 五神通)
to get sb to understand / to persuade
unable to understand / unable to get over
to figure out / to realize / to become convinced / to come round (to an idea) / to get over it
ordinary / mediocre / nothing special
China Unicom
to rush through urgently (e.g. emergency supplies)
to get through sth quickly / (gaming) speedrun (abbr. for 快速通關|快速通关)
Deng Tong (2nd c. BC), one of the wealthiest Former Han Dynasty 前漢|前汉 officials
Oukubo Toshimichi (1830-1878), Japanese politician
public transport / mass transit
Zhengzitong, Chinese character dictionary with 33,549 entries, edited by Ming scholar Zhang Zilie 張自烈|张自烈 in 17th century
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) (telecommunications)
hearts linked as one, just as the proverbial rhinoceros communicates emotion telepathically through his single horn (idiom); fig. two hearts beat as one
practicable / realizable / will work
(Buddhism) recollection of past lives / wisdom of past lives (one of six supernatural powers of Buddhas and arhats)
a hint is all that is needed / understanding each other without the need to explain
Goldstone (name)
it does not make sense
to be well-informed
Mouton (name) / Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), French clergyman and scientist, pioneer of the metric system
mental rapport / likeness of mind / spiritual link
SmarTone-Vodafone (Hong Kong and Macau company)
water and land transport
Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd (GTCOM), Chinese big data and AI company
knowledgeable and perspicacious (idiom)
mutual exchange of assistance (idiom) / to reciprocate with material assistance
ventilation; air circulation
it does not make sense
(coll.) a whole lot of ...; an endless stream of ... (used in relation to excessive or tedious amounts of talk, explanations, complaints etc)

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