通州 tōngzhōu Tongzhou District (Beijing) Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 通 tōng verbparticle to lead to to go through; to lead to a place州 zhōu proper noun prefecture An administrative division in China, including modern autonomous prefectures (自治州 zìzhìzhōu) and historical units whose names survive in city names like 苏州 sūzhōu