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つう
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Noun
Suffix
1. authority; expert; connoisseur; well-informed person
Counter
2. counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.
Adjective (な)
Noun
3. understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; insight
Noun
4. supernatural powers; magical powers
Alt. forms
通つう
61%
つう
37%
ツウ
1%
Pitch accent
つ
う
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Used in: 1491
Used in vocabulary (126 in total)
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 (liquid, current); to pass; to be understood; to be comprehended; to be honored
popular use; circulation; to pass as; to pass for
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Examples (9 in total)
How many letters did you send to Tom?
Compare the style of those three letters.
He dictated several letters to his secretary.
Mr White read out some letters of thanks to his students.
When his wife died, he received dozens of letters of sympathy.
He wrote me four letters.
I wrote three letters last night.
I sent about 2.2 billion spam emails over a period of around one and a half years.
Tom and Mary exchange more than 200 text messages every day.