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通 つう

  1. authority; connoisseur; expert; well-informed person
  2. counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.
  3. insight; tact; understanding (esp. of male-female relations)
  4. magical powers; supernatural powers

通う かよう N4

  1. to go back and forth between; to go to and from (a place); to ply between; to run between (e.g. bus, train, etc.)
  2. to attend; to commute; to frequent; to go to (school, work, etc.)
  3. to be communicated (e.g. thought); to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity)
  4. to resemble

通り とおり N4

  1. avenue; road; street; thoroughfare
  2. coming and going; traffic
  3. flow (of water, air, etc.); passage; running
  4. reach (of voice); transmission (of sound)
  5. favor; favour; popularity; reputation
  6. clarity; comprehensibility; comprehension; understanding
  7. as (follows, stated, expected, etc.); the same way (as)
  8. counter for sets of things
  9. counter for methods, ways, kinds, etc.

通る とおる N4

  1. to go along; to go by; to go by way of; to go past; to go via; to pass through; to take (a route); to travel along; to use (a road)
  2. to connect; to operate (between); to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.)
  3. to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in; to go indoors; to go into a room
  4. to come through; to go through; to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer
  5. to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
  6. to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
  7. to be conveyed; to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed
  8. to be accepted; to be approved; to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.)
  9. to be accepted as; to be known as; to go by (a name); to have a reputation for
  10. to be coherent; to be comprehensible; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be understandable; to make sense
  11. to be understood; to get across (e.g. of one's point)
  12. to come across as; to pass for; to seem like
  13. to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
  14. to be well-informed; to be wise
  15. to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly

通じる つうじる N3

  1. to be open (to traffic); to communicate (with); to lead to
  2. to flow (liquid, current); to get through to; to pass
  3. to be comprehended; to be understood
  4. to be good; to be honored
  5. to be well versed in; to be well-informed
  6. to communicate clandestinely; to keep in touch (e.g. with the enemy)
  7. to be intimate; to form a liaison
  8. to disseminate; to spread widely

通す とおす N3

  1. to allow through; to let pass; to let through; to make way (for)
  2. to conduct (electricity); to let in; to let permeate (e.g. water through a fabric); to let through (e.g. air); to penetrate; to permit through; to run through (e.g. a pipe); to transmit (e.g. light, sound, etc.)
  3. to force through (e.g. an opening); to put through; to stick through (e.g. a hole); to thread (e.g. a needle)
  4. to connect (e.g. two places); to establish (a connection between); to extend up to (somewhere); to join; to link (e.g. by a road); to open (a route, path, etc.)
  5. to admit (e.g. a student); to let in; to let through; to pass (a student, applicant, etc.)
  6. to admit (someone); to guide in; to lead (someone) into (a house, room, etc.); to show in
  7. to be consistent (in one's reasoning); to make (e.g. one's argument) convincing; to present logically; to stick to (e.g. one's principles)
  8. to do via (something); to go through (e.g. a middleman); to mediate via (somebody); to put as an intermediary
  9. to make way (for); to pass (a law); to put through (e.g. a motion)
  10. to listen through (a door, wall, etc.); to look through (e.g. a window)
  11. to cook properly; to heat evenly; to heat thorougly (of food); to warm well
  12. to dip into (e.g. a sauce); to pass through (e.g. a broth); to put through (e.g. boiling water)
  13. to force agreement; to have one's way; to make (someone) approve (e.g. a plan); to push through (a proposal, idea, will, etc.)
  14. to continue (in a state); to keep doing; to persist in (doing); to remain (in a state)
  15. to do from the perspective of; to do through the lens of; to view from the angle of
  16. to cover all of; to do to the entirety of; to span the whole
  17. to do all at once; to do from beginning to end without a break; to do in one go; to finish in one session
  18. to convey (an intention, meaning, etc.); to make heard (e.g. one's voice); to pass on (e.g. information); to relay (a message, an order, etc.); to send through
  19. to carry through ...; to complete ...; to do ... continuously; to do ... to the end

通り過ぎる とおりすぎる N3

  1. to go past; to pass; to pass by

通信 つうしん N3

  1. communication; correspondence; news; signal; telecommunications; transmission

通学 つうがく N3

  1. commuting to school; school commute

通行 つうこう N3

  1. passage (of people or vehicles); passing (through); traffic
  2. common usage; widespread use
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