通信

Character by character

• 通tōng11 strokesHSK 2pass through; common; communicate
• 信xìn9 strokesHSK 2trust, believe; letter

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 通信. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 通过tōng guòHSK 2

  to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation); to pass (a test); by means of; through; via

• 信xìnHSK 2

  letter; mail; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random

• 相信xiāng xìnHSK 2

  to be convinced (that sth is true); to believe; to accept sth as true

• 信息xìn xīHSK 2

  information; news; message

• 通tōngHSK 2

  to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc

• 通知tōng zhīHSK 2

  to notify; to inform; notice; notification

• 普通pǔ tōngHSK 2

  common; ordinary; general; average

• 交通jiāo tōngHSK 2

  to be connected; traffic; transportation; communications; liaison

• 信号xìn hàoHSK 2

  signal

• 通常tōng chángHSK 3

  regular; usual; normal; usually; normally

• 信任xìn rènHSK 3

  to trust; to have confidence in

• 信心xìn xīnHSK 2

  confidence; faith (in sb or sth)

• 自信zì xìnHSK 4

  to have confidence in oneself; self-confidence

• 通道tōng dàoHSK 6

  (communications) channel; thoroughfare; passage

• 沟通gōu tōngHSK 5

  to join; to connect; to link up; to communicate

• 通讯tōng xùnHSK 6

  communications; news story; dispatch

• 信仰xìn yǎngHSK 6

  to believe in (a religion); firm belief; conviction

• 信用卡xìn yòng kǎHSK 2

  credit card

• 开通kāi tōngHSK 6

  to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to subscribe to (a members-only service)

• 信念xìn niànHSK 5

  faith; belief; conviction

• 信用xìn yòngHSK 6

  trustworthiness; (commerce) credit; (literary) to trust and appoint

• 通话tōng huàHSK 6

  to hold a conversation; to talk over the telephone; phone call

• 坚信jiān xìnHSK 7

  to believe firmly; without any doubt

• 通报tōng bàoHSK 6

  to inform; to notify; to announce; circular; bulletin; (scientific) journal