通事

Chinese

		go through; know well; to connect go through; know well; to connect; to communicate; open	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (通事)		通	事
simp. #(通事)		通	事

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): tōngshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥ ㄕˋ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): тунсы (tunsɨ, I-III)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung¹ si⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thong-sū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tōngshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tongshìh
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung¹-shih⁴
    • Yale: tūng-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tongshyh
    • Palladius: тунши (tunši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: тунсы (tunsɨ, I-III)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰuŋ²⁴ sz̩⁴⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung¹ si⁶
    • Yale: tūng sih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung¹ si⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung¹ xi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ⁵⁵ siː²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thong-sū
    • Tâi-lô: thong-sū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tongsu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su²²/

Noun

通事

1. (archaic, historical) translator; interpreter; linguist

Synonyms

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• 口譯員／口译员 (kǒuyìyuán) (interpreter)
• 口譯者／口译者 (kǒuyìzhě) (interpreter)
• 翻譯／翻译 (fānyì)
• 翻譯員／翻译员 (fānyìyuán)
• 翻譯官／翻译官 (fānyìguān)
• 翻譯者／翻译者 (fānyìzhě)
• 舌人 (shérén) (literary)
• 譯匠／译匠 (yìjiàng) (literary)
• 譯員／译员 (yìyuán)
• 譯者／译者 (yìzhě)
• 通事官 (tōngshìguān) (archaic)
• 通司 (tōngsī) (archaic)
• 通譯／通译 (tōngyì) (dated)
• 通譯員／通译员 (tōngyìyuán)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (通事):

• → Japanese: 通(つう)事(じ) (tsūji)
• → Korean: 통사(通事) (tongsa)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
通	事
つう Grade: 2	じ Grade: 3
on'yomi

Alternative spellings
通詞 通辞

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) つうじ [tsúꜜùjì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨːʑi]

Noun

通(つう)事(じ) • (tsūji) 

1. interpreter (especially a court interpreter, especially of Dutch or Chinese during the Edo period)