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HSK
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 be connected / traffic / transportation / communications / liaison
HSK 2
common / ordinary / general / average
HSK 2
to join; to connect; to link up / to communicate
HSK 5
to circulate; to distribute / circulation; distribution
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 open access / to establish contact / to remove a block / to put through (a phone connection)
HSK 7-9
cartoon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
all / entire / complete
HSK 7-9
to connect / to put through
HSK 7-9
to be proficient in / to master (a subject)
HSK 7-9
interlinked / connected / communicating / in communication / accommodating
HSK 7-9
fast and abundant (news) / clever / effective
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
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *通* | 通* | *通
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
Datong, a district of Huainan City 淮南市, Anhui / Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County in Xining 西寧|西宁, Qinghai
to have secret ties with / to be in covert communication with (the enemy etc) / to engage in an illicit sexual relationship / adultery
won't work / will get (you) nowhere
flexible / accommodating
kindred spirits
Fujitsu
unable to understand / unable to get over
mental rapport / likeness of mind / spiritual link
open-minded
to display one's remarkable skill or prowess / to give full play to one's brilliant abilities
SmarTone-Vodafone (Hong Kong and Macau company)
to lead directly to
jack-of-all-trades; know-it-all
remarkable ability / magical power
to figure out / to realize / to become convinced / to come round (to an idea) / to get over it
(idiom) to integrate knowledge from various sources into a deep and coherent understanding of a subject
ordinary / mediocre / nothing special
pragmatic / flexible / to act differently in different situations / to accommodate to circumstances
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
(onom.) sound of object falling into water / plop
to make sense of sth
Goldstone (name)
to intercommunicate / to interoperate
to connect / to communicate / to relate / (math.) connected
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
to comprehend (new things) by analogy
self-taught / to learn without a teacher (idiom)
universal; applicable to all (or both) / shared; common
to bribe
lit. not one drop can trickle through (idiom) / fig. (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable
(of a political career) everything is going smoothly (idiom)
practicable / realizable / will work
(idiom) (of writing, speech etc) incoherent; nonsensical
hearts linked as one, just as the proverbial rhinoceros communicates emotion telepathically through his single horn (idiom); fig. two hearts beat as one
China watcher / an expert on China / an old China hand
(Buddhism) recollection of past lives / wisdom of past lives (one of six supernatural powers of Buddhas and arhats)
everything is going smoothly (idiom)
to collude / to collaborate / to gang up
Deng Tong (2nd c. BC), one of the wealthiest Former Han Dynasty 前漢|前汉 officials
to go smoothly / prosperous / going well
T-joint / T-piece / T-pipe / three links
everything
this road is blocked / fig. This method does not work. / Doing this is no good.
to circulate / to flow (esp. capital) / to intermingle / to merge / to become assimilated
to not fully understand (idiom)
to get a good grasp of
Yitong Manchurian autonomous county in Siping 四平, Jilin
knowledgeable person / know all
mutual exchange of assistance (idiom) / to reciprocate with material assistance
grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom)
to collude with / to conspire
American Express Co. (Amex)
China United Telecommunications Corporation / aka China Unicom or Unicom / abbr. for 中國聯通|中国联通
connection / link / to link together
to get sb to understand / to persuade
China Netcom (CNC), former telecommunication service provider in PRC
public transport / mass transit
cannot get through (on phone)
Bridgestone (tire company)
Octopus (Hong Kong smart card system for electronic payments)
China Unicom
ventilation; air circulation
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) (telecommunications)
to get through sth quickly / (gaming) speedrun (abbr. for 快速通關|快速通关)
a hint is all that is needed / understanding each other without the need to explain
bottom bracket shell (in a bicycle frame) / (Buddhism) the five supernatural powers (abbr. for 五神通)
Pantone color system
passable / possible to reach
China Mobile Tietong, state-owned telecommunications operator (abbr. for 中移鐵通|中移铁通)
(Cantonese) iron pipe (weapon)
oral communication (psychology)
Oukubo Toshimichi (1830-1878), Japanese politician
to be well-informed
STO Express, courier service headquartered in Shanghai, founded in 1993
it does not make sense
Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005), Chinese sociologist

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