通る

Meanings

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

Part of speech: godan verb (る), intransitive, suffix

Kanji

• 通

  Meanings

  traffic, pass through, avenue, commute

  On reading

  ツウ、ツ

  Kun reading

  とお.る、とお.り、-とお.り、-どお.り、とお.す、とお.し

  Strokes

  10

Example sentences

• 私は毎日その教会の前を通る。

  I go by that church every day.

  Tatoeba #152721 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 駅と飛行機の間は、バスが通っている。

  Buses run between the station and the airport.

  Tatoeba #188943 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 弾がヘルメットを通った。

  A bullet pierced the helmet.

  Tatoeba #127332 · CC BY 2.0 FR