coming and going; back-and-forth passage; service running between places
Refers to movement back and forth between two places, including a route or vehicle regularly plying between them. Commonly seen in compounds such as 通い船.
See also: 通う
commuting; regular attendance; frequenting
Used for regularly going to work, school, lessons, a hospital, a gym, a shop, and similar places. It often works suffix-like after a place or means, as in 電車通い or ジム通い.
See also: 通う
Abbreviation of 通い帳. This use is limited and old-fashioned or contextual; for a modern bank passbook, 通帳 is the usual word.
See also: 通い帳
My mother makes regular trips to the hospital.
A ferry boat runs every day between the island and the mainland.
Commuting by train for an hour each way is more tiring than I expected.
Recently I started going to the gym regularly after work.
In older materials, 通い is sometimes used as an abbreviation of 通い帳, a passbook or account book.
He works commuting from home rather than living in.
They employ a housekeeper who comes in daily rather than living in.
通い can describe regularly attending work, school, lessons, or a hospital, whereas 通学 refers only to commuting to school.
attending cram school; going to cram school
commuter wife; wife who lives separately and visits regularly
commuter marriage; living-apart-together marriage
passbook; bankbook
ferry; shuttle boat
route; path; way
attending shows; frequenting the theater
regular medical visits; being under a doctor's care
communicate with each other; understand each other; be mutually understood
Nominalized form of the verb 通う, formed from its 連用形/masu-stem 通い, meaning movement or attendance that goes back and forth or happens regularly.
visit frequently; haunt; go to regularly