通る
とおる
Also written 透る, 徹る
Meanings
- Godan verb, Intransitive 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
- Suffix, Godan verb to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly (after the -masu stem of a verb)
Kanji
- 通 pass through. Read as とおる.
Example sentences
- 君の声はよく通るな。
Your voice carries well. - 言ってることの筋が通らないぞ。
What you are saying does not make sense. - 君のいっていることは筋が通らない。
What you are saying does not make sense. - 教会のそばを通ろう。
Let's pass by the church. - 家の前を馬が通った。
A horse passed my house.
Common phrases
- 火が通る
- 前を通る
- 近くを通る
- 場所を通る
- 下を通る
- 道を通る
- 付近を通る
- 中を通る
- ルートを通る
- 町を通る (まちをとおる) to pass through town
- 鉄道が通る
- 地下を通る
- 喉を通る (のどをとおる) to be able to eat
- 避けて通れない (さけてとおれない) cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.)
- 筋が通る (すじがとおる) to make sense
Related forms
- 通す (とおす) to let pass (transitive partner)
Words containing 通る
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