"不通" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 bù tōng to be obstructed / to be blocked up / to be impassable / to make no sense / to be illogical
Approximate Results for 不通
 xiǎng bu tōng unable to understand / unable to get over
 xíng bu tōng won't work / will get (you) nowhere
 dǎ bu tōng cannot get through (on phone)
 jiǎng bù tōng it does not make sense
 shuō bù tōng it does not make sense
 yī qiào bù tōng lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head) / I don't understand a word (idiom) / it's all Greek to me
 gǒu pì bù tōng incoherent (writing or speech) / nonsensical / a load of crap
 shuǐ xiè bù tōng lit. not one drop can trickle through (idiom) / fig. impenetrable (crowd, traffic)
 bàn tōng bù tōng to not fully understand (idiom)
 cǐ lù bù tōng this road is blocked / fig. This method does not work. / Doing this is no good.
  limited frequency unannounced access
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