Japanese Word of the Day

通り
とおり - toori

street

Definitions

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通り

1. n. street

古い通り - old street

2. n. traffic

3. n. quality of flowing

夏は空気の通りがいい - literally in the summer, the flow of the air is good

鼻の通りが悪い時 - literally when the flowing of the nose is bad

4. n. reputation, name

5. n. understanding

6. n. in accordance with

ご覧の通り - literally in accordance with your looking

ご覧の通りです。 - It is precisely as you can see.

7. n. combination; permutation; variation

AとBの2通りを用意する - to prepare two different variations

発音が2通りある - to have 2 different pronunciations

全部で32通り - 32 permutations in all

8. suffix. as, in accordance with

9. suffix. roughly

10. suffix. street

中央通り - central street

toori