通 connoisseur, performing an activity in its entirety from start to finish, to know something well due to being a frequent user, an expert, make an open and clear connection, go back and forth on the same path often; way, manner of doing; communication, intimate intercourse, bowel movement, evacuation of one's

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ツウ　･　ツ
TSU　U　･　TSU

Kun-yomi

とお(る　･　とお(り　･　～とお(り　･　～どお(り　･　とお(す　･　とお(し　･　～どお(し　･　かよ(う
to　o　ru　･　to　o　ri　･　～to　o　ri　･　～do　o　ri　･　to　o　su　･　to　o　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

辶

チャク,しんにょう HTML entity: 辶 foot motions, motion of feet, something in motion, taking steps

　DRIPPING, DRIP BY DRIP, ONE DROP AFTER ANOTHER, COOLING PROCESS, CONGEALING, CHANGE BETWEEN TWO PHYSICAL STATES, CEASE MOTION with TAUT NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
…or: DOUBLED EMPHASIZED with TENSION, STRESS WITH SPRING-LIKE ACTION, FOOT and STRETCHED TAUT, THE OTHER SIDE TOO
　

辶

チャク,しんにょう HTML entity: 辶 foot dragging, dragging feet across a surface, foot motions, motion of feet, something in motion, taking steps

　marker on two LAME FEET, TENSION and TAUT, LEASHED
　

マ

× HTML entity: マ kowtow position kneeling and bowing forward down on all fours with buttocks protruding in the lordosis position; shuttling movements back and forth

　DOWN from BOWING POSITION
…or: TENSION LONG TIME and marker
　

田

デン,た plugged and filled orifice or cavity, wet area for implanting, wetlands, moist night soil, rice paddy, muck pool, slurry pit; public use, many orifices

　TEN in ORIFICE
…or: MANY, MANY ORIFICES
…or: BLOCKED, FILLED, SCREWING and ORIFICE, ENCLOSURE
…or: SOIL in CAVITY
…or: PENIS inverted in SPREAD LEGS
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

冂

キョウ,ケイ,× widely spread legs, surrounding outer edge

　VERTICAL RECIPROCATING MOTION, ROD with TENSION TIGHT SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
　

甬

⺕ウ,× pass through, path between soil walls on both sides, remaining only a short while, stiff container, bucket, shitcan, to pass stool, feces, flowing fluids among soil walls, river name

　KNEELING ON ALL FOURS behind CLOSED GATEWAY, NOW IN USE
…or: SHUTTLING MOTION with EXCRETION
　

Meanings of elements

STEPS, MOTION and PASS THROUGH PATH BETWEEN SOIL WALLS ON BOTH SIDES, SHITCAN, PASSING FECES
…or: STEPS, MOTION with KNEELING ON ALL FOURS, CLOSED GATEWAY, NOW IN USE
…or: STEPS, MOTION SHUTTLING with EXCRETING
…or: STEPS, MOTION in LORDOSIS with ROD in MUCK ORIFICE MEAT

PERFORMING AN ACTIVITY IN ITS ENTIRETY FROM START TO FINISH seems to refer also to the elements individually as「motions of person squatting and using mooned orifice between spread legs」while performing an activity in its entirety from start to finish with the motion of passing between walls,「evacuation of bowels」「motions with a bucket」and so on describes DEFECATING, an activity that can be agreed upon universally as one that should not be paused or stopped in midstream, for any reason…try to imagine that.「Motions with use of a receptacle or an open cavity to temporarily hold some contents, such as untreated excreta transported without water (e.g.,「shimogoe」via containers or buckets).」
「Motion of passing through stiff walls」such as would be displayed by a female primate in estrus might be the PATH, the ROAD, the WAY of all primates and human beings and most other animals as well in order to assure the survival of the species…perhaps the answer to the question:「Why was I born?」(to eat, survive, and reproduce). Note that each person may have an individual MANNER OF DOING that task, but one way or another it must be done or we die out as a species.
Alternatively, some sources try to claim this glyph depicts the「motion of using a shuttle」of a loom that passed the weft threads from one side to the other between the warp threads. The WAY OF DOING meaning perhaps stems from the fact that there were different weave designs, such as twill.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc); to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
Japanese EDRDG: traffic, pass through, avenue, commute, counter for documents
Unihan extended: pass through, common, communicate

Used within names (nanori)
とん　･　どうし　･　どおり　･　みち

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.