Word · 単語
通る
Reading とおる
to go by
- 1 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
- 2 to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.), to operate (between), to connect
- 3 to go indoors, to go into a room, to be admitted, to be shown in, to be ushered in, to come in
- 4 to penetrate, to pierce, to skewer, to go through, to come through
- 5 to permeate, to soak into, to spread throughout
- 6 to carry (e.g. of a voice), to reach far
- 7 to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen), to be relayed, to be conveyed
- 8 to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.), to be approved, to be accepted
- 9 to go by (a name), to be known as, to be accepted as, to have a reputation for
- 10 to be coherent, to be logical, to be reasonable, to be comprehensible, to be understandable, to make sense
- 11 to get across (e.g. of one's point), to be understood
- 12 to pass for, to come across as, 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 — after the -masu stem of a verb
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
太郎は学者で通っている。
Taro passes for a scholar.
sense 12 · to pass for
そういう言い訳はとおらない。
That's no excuse.
sense 10 · to be coherent
彼女の声は通らない。
Her voice doesn't carry.
sense 6 · to carry (e.g. of a voice)
黙っていて心が通った。
There was no need for verbal communication.
sense 11 · to get across (e.g. of one's point)
弾がヘルメットを通った。
A bullet pierced the helmet.
sense 4 · to penetrate