不通

bù tōng

HSK 6freq #7794

Meanings

CC-CEDICT

bù tōng

1.to be obstructed
2.to be blocked up
3.to be impassable
4.to make no sense
5.to be illogical

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Wiktionary

1.to be obstructed; to be unable to get through
2.to not understand
3.unclear and incoherent

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Stroke order

Components

不丆卜

通辶甬

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Characters

Example sentences

无论如何说不通。
It makes no sense whatsoever.
所有的電話都不通。
None of the telephones are working.

Sentences from Tatoeba · CC-BY 2.0 FR

More examples & usage (AI)

Related words

讲不通 it does not make sense 行不通 won't work 说不通 it does not make sense 想不通 unable to understand 打不通 cannot get through (on phone)狗屁不通 (idiom) (of writing, speech etc) incoherent; nonsensical 水泄不通 (lit.) not one drop can trickle through (idiom)此路不通 this road is blocked 半通不通 to not fully understand (idiom)一窍不通 lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head)