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つう
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Noun
Suffix
1. authority; expert; connoisseur; well-informed person
Oh, you know it by that name? You're quite the connoisseur!
Counter
2. counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.
Five emails had arrived.
Adjective (な)
Noun
3. understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; insight
Noun
4. supernatural powers; magical powers
Alt. forms
通つう
67%
つう
29%
ツウ
2%
Pitch accent
つ
う
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Used in vocabulary (146 in total)
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
to be open (to traffic); to lead (to); to flow (of a liquid, current, etc.); to pass (through); to be conveyed (of an intention, meaning, etc.); to be understood (by); to be well versed (in)
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Examples (14 in total)
I have only written three.
Five emails had arrived.
He wrote me four letters.
I wrote three letters last night.
Oh, you know it by that name? You're quite the connoisseur!
How many letters did you send to Tom?
I received a letter three months later.
Compare the style of those three letters.
He dictated several letters to his secretary.
I sent about 2.2 billion spam emails over a period of around one and a half years.
Wow, you're a soba connoisseur even though you're a foreigner.
Tom and Mary exchange more than 200 text messages every day.
Mr White read out some letters of thanks to his students.
When his wife died, he received dozens of letters of sympathy.