通 tōng
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 甬 path
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
通宵
tōngxiāo
all night; throughout the night
Characters in this word
宵 xiāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 肖 to resemble, to look like
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 为了赶在投标截止前提交方案，团队几乎通宵工作。 Wèile gǎn zài tóubiāo jiézhǐ qián tíjiāo fāng'àn, tuánduì jīhū tōngxiāo gōngzuò. To submit the proposal before the bidding deadline, the team worked almost all night.
- 孩子发高烧，妈妈通宵守在床边照看他。 Háizi fā gāoshāo, māma tōngxiāo shǒu zài chuángbiān zhàokàn tā. The child had a high fever, so his mother stayed by his bedside all night.
- 除夕夜大家通宵聊天，谁也不觉得困。 Chúxī yè dàjiā tōngxiāo liáotiān, shéi yě bù juéde kùn. On New Year's Eve everyone chatted through the night, and nobody felt sleepy.
Related words
- 交通 jiāotōng transportation; traffic
- 普通 pǔtōng ordinary
- 普通话 pǔtōnghuà Standard Mandarin
- 通 tōng to be open; to connect
- 通过 tōngguò to pass; through
- 通知 tōngzhī to notify; notice
- 通常 tōngcháng usually
- 通信 tōngxìn communication; to correspond
- 通知书 tōngzhīshū written notice
- 沟通 gōutōng to communicate
- 流通 liútōng to circulate
- 通用 tōngyòng general use; universal