N4279/566

とお

rarely used kanji formgodan verbgodan verb (archaic)verb (generic)intransitive verbarchaicsuffix

Reading

Meanings

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

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Example sentences

このみちとおるとえききます。

If you go along this road, you will reach the station.

試験しけんとおった

I passed the exam!

こえがよくとおひとですね。

That person has a voice that carries well, doesn't it?

このみちくるまとおれません

Cars cannot pass through this road.

かれ説明せつめいすじとおっていて、みんなに理解りかいされた。

His explanation was logical and was understood by everyone.