pass through; commute

Builds 83 distinct compound words — ranked #37 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ツウ・ツ
訓 kun: とお.る・かよ.う

Passing through, and going back and forth regularly. 交通 traffic, 普通 ordinary, 通り a street.

The ten most common compounds built on 通. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

83compounds built

2,027times those words occur

#38by productivity alone

#64by how often it turns up

Where 通 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 通. Each one opens its own map.

事matter; abstract thing交通事故#9 間interval; between時間通り#12 時time; hour時間通り#14 学study; learning通学#15 思think思い通り#85 過pass; exceed通り過ぎる#94

Words built on 通

通りとおり419 uses

普通ふつう192 uses

通るとおる174 uses

交通事故106 uses

時間通り85 uses

通すとおす71 uses

通じるつうじる67 uses

通うかよう64 uses

交通こうつう49 uses

通り抜けるとおりぬける43 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.