普通

普通 in English

pǔ tōng adjective HSK 4: common / ordinary / general / average

Measure word

只 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc attested in use

Character breakdown

普 pǔ general
通 tōng to go through

Stroke order

Le caractère 普 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 普

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

普

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

通

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

您会讲普通话吗？

Can you speak Mandarin?
我明年想学普通话。

I want to learn Chinese next year.
法律術語是大多數普通人無法理解的。

Legal terminology is usually incomprehensible to non-specialists.
这不是普通话，而是上海话。

This isn't Mandarin, it's Shanghainese.

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