| 凡士通 |
Fán shì tōng |
Firestone (Tire and Rubber Company) |
| 凡 |
fán |
ordinary / commonplace / mundane / temporal / of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels) / every / all / whatever / altogether / gist / outline / note of Chinese musical scale |
| 凡 |
fán |
variant of 凡 |
| 士 |
Shì |
surname Shi |
| 士 |
shì |
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker |
| 通 |
tōng |
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc |
| 通 |
tòng |
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc) |