人通り
ひとどおり · hitodoori · JLPT N2 · noun
pedestrian traffic
🚶 人 (person) + 通り (pass through) = people passing through = pedestrian traffic
通り (doori) also means street. 人通り is the flow of people moving along a street, so it describes foot traffic on the road.
人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.
通 — 辵 (辶) walk + 甬 yǒng (phonetic)
通 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The 辶 (chuò) component means 'walk' or 'movement', giving the meaning of going through or passing. 甬 (yǒng), originally depicting a hanging bell or a path, supplies the sound. Together they convey 'to pass through, communicate, connect'.