達

Meaning

達 centers on reaching a destination or a goal: arriving somewhere, attaining a state, or becoming accomplished. The idea of reaching extends naturally to the pluralizing suffix たち, which marks a group that has been gathered or arrived at.

• 達たち
  N5

  pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)

• 友達ともだち
  N5

  friend; companion

• 達成たっせい
  N2

  achievement; attainment; accomplishment; realization

• 発達はったつ
  N3

  development; growth

• 達したっし

  official notice; notification

• 到達とうたつ
  N1

  reaching; attaining; arrival

• 配達はいたつ
  N3

  delivery

• 調達ちょうたつ
  N1

  supply; provision; raising; procurement

• 伊達だて

  elegance; dandyism; sophistication; having style

• 達人たつじん

  master; expert

• 伝達でんたつ
  N1

  transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay; propagation; conduction

• 達するたっする
  N3

  to reach; to get to; to arrive at

• 上達じょうたつ
  N3

  improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress

• 御用達ごようたし

  purveyor (to the Imperial Household, etc.)

• 通達つうたつ
  N1

  notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration)

• 達磨だるま

  daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted

• 達者たっしゃ
  N1

  in good health; healthy; well; fit; robust; strong

• 配達員はいたついん

  deliverer; deliveryman; delivery person

• 速達そくたつ
  N3

  express; special delivery

• 先達せんだつ

  leader; pioneer; precursor; senior figure

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