통

A container, especially a bin, bucket, barrel, tub, or cylindrical vessel used for holding things.

Etymology

Associated with Sino-Korean 桶 or 筒, meaning a tub, barrel, tube, or cylindrical container.

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A counting unit for letters, documents, phone calls, messages, and similar acts of communication.

Etymology

From Sino-Korean 通, used as a classifier meaning one instance of communication, such as a letter or message.

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Completely or entirely; commonly used with a negative expression to mean not at all or utterly not.

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The whole of something in an uncut, undivided, or intact state, especially in the forms 통으로 or 통째로.

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A pain, ache, or painful condition, especially as the element 통 in words referring to kinds of pain.

Etymology

From Sino-Korean 痛, meaning pain or suffering.

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