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通过

tōng guò 1–4

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

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
通 · 过
Syllables
2
tōng guò
Frequency
Very common
corpus count 343

Part of speech: p,v,vn

Character by character

  • 通tōng11 strokesHSK 2pass through; common; communicate
  • 过guò7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 過pass, pass through, go across

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我没通过。

    Wǒ méi tōng guò

    I didn't pass.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

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