通つうじる

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

lead to; be connected to; be open for communication

Used of roads, routes, lines, phones, and other connections that lead somewhere or allow contact. The subject is the route or means of communication, not the person using it.

• この道みちは駅えき前まえに通つうじている。

  This road leads to the front of the station.

• 携けい帯たいの電でん波ぱが弱よわくて、電でん話わが通つうじない。

  The mobile signal is weak, so the call will not connect.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

flow through; pass through; get through

Used when a current, fluid, air passage, or similar flow passes through a channel. Common collocations include 電流が通じる and 鼻が通じる.

• この回かい路ろには電でん流りゅうが通つうじている。

  An electric current is flowing through this circuit.

• 薬くすりを飲のんだら鼻はなが通つうじた。

  After I took the medicine, my nose cleared.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

be understood; get across; be comprehensible

Used when language, meaning, jokes, feelings, or intentions are understood by someone. Often appears in patterns such as 英語が通じる, 意味が通じる, and 冗談が通じない.

• この店みせでは英えい語ごが通つうじる。

  English is understood at this shop.

• 皮ひ肉にくが通つうじず、彼かれは真しんに受うけた。

  He did not understand the sarcasm and took it seriously.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

be held in honor; have a good reputation; be regarded well

Rare or old-fashioned use connected with having an honored or good name. Modern Japanese usually expresses this more directly with 評判がよい, 名誉がある, or 名が知られている.

• 古ふるい用よう例れいでは、「名なが通つうじる」が名めい誉よある評ひょう判ばんを持もつ意い味みで使つかわれることがある。

  In older examples, 名が通じる can mean having an honored reputation.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

be well versed in; be knowledgeable about; be well-informed

Usually takes に: a person is 通じている in a field, subject, culture, or set of circumstances. It sounds more educated than simply よく知っている.

• 彼かの女じょは古こ典てん文ぶん学がくに通つうじている。

  She is well versed in classical literature.

• 外がい交こう事じ情じょうに通つうじた記き者しゃだ。

  He is a reporter well-informed about diplomatic affairs.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

be secretly in contact with; collude with; communicate clandestinely

Often negative, used for secret contact or collusion, especially with an enemy or opposing side. The pattern 敵に通じる or 敵方に通じる is typical.

• その役やく人にんは敵てき方がたに通つうじていた疑うたがいがある。

  The official is suspected of having been secretly in contact with the enemy.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

have an intimate relationship; form a liaison; be sexually involved

Literary or old-fashioned use for a secret intimate relationship, often illicit. Modern speech would more often use expressions such as 関係を持つ or 不倫する depending on context.

• 古ふるい小しょう説せつでは、「人ひと妻づまと通つうじる」のように、密ひそかな男だん女じょ関かん係けいを表あらわすことがある。

  In old novels, expressions such as 人妻と通じる can describe a secret intimate relationship.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

spread widely; become widely known; be disseminated

Literary-sounding use for a name, reputation, teaching, or idea spreading widely. In modern everyday Japanese, 広まる or 知れ渡る is usually clearer.

• 「名なが世よに通つうじる」は、名めい声せいが広ひろく知しられるという古こ風ふうな言いい方かただ。

  名が世に通じる is an old-fashioned way to say that a reputation becomes widely known.