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通 kanji
traffic, pass through, avenue, commute, counter for letters, notes, documents, etc.
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
ツウツ
Kun readings
とおるとおり-とおり-どおりとおすとおし-どおしかよう
Words with 通
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —通行料toll
- —通行権right of way
- —通気管ventilation duct; air pipe
- —流通系flow system
- —普通文normal style of writing; modern Japanese text; text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)
- —融通性flexibility; elasticity
- —共通項point in common; common term; common trait; common denominator
- —神足通unimpeded bodily function (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers)
- —他心通awareness of the minds of others (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers)
- —宿命通knowledge of previous lifetimes (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers)
- —六神通six supernormal powers
- —交通局traffic bureau; transportation bureau
- —通ぶるto act like a know-it-all; to pretend you know everything; to fancy one is an authority
- —通がるto act like a know-it-all; to pretend you know everything; to fancy one is an authority
- —通行本popular book; widely-read book; book of which there are many copies
- —交通圏traffic area; traffic block
- —普通種common species; cosmopolitan
- —料理通gourmet; gastronome
- —通話表phonetic alphabet (e.g. A for alpha, B for bravo, etc.); phonetic code
- —共通性communality; community; having something in common