also: おつうじ
noun
bowel movement; defecation; evacuation
Usually お通じ. A polite, everyday euphemism for bowel movements, often used when talking about regularity, constipation, or health.
最近、お通じがあまりない。
I haven't been having many bowel movements lately.
野菜を多く食べるようにしたら、お通じがよくなった。
After I started eating more vegetables, my bowel movements improved.
noun
understanding; quickness to understand; being on the same wavelength
Used for how readily someone understands another person's thoughts, feelings, intention, or hints. It is most natural in limited phrases such as 通じが早い, 通じがいい, and 通じが悪い; 理解 or 察し may be more common in plain modern wording.
彼女は通じが早く、こちらの意図をすぐ察してくれる。
She is quick to understand and immediately picks up on what we mean.
遠回しに言っても、彼は通じが悪い。
Even if you hint at it indirectly, he is slow to catch on.
A more direct health or medical term for bowel regularity or bowel movements; お通じ is softer and more conversational.
A technical or clinical word for defecation; 通じ or お通じ sounds less clinical.
The general word for understanding. 通じ in this sense is narrower and often refers to catching another person's intention or feeling.
Refers to inference or perceptiveness in guessing what someone means or feels; 通じ describes the resulting ease or difficulty of that understanding.
A noun use of the continuative form 通じ of 通じる, 'to pass through; to be understood.' The bowel sense is conventionally connected with the idea of passage through the body, but the exact semantic development is not specified.