Illustration: At a newly completed road tunnel in a Japanese mountain town, workers pull the final temporary barricades aside as the first local bus enters. Fresh road edges and a small group of waiting residents establish the opening occasion, while the tunnel’s far exit is visible through the mountain.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

開かい通つう

kaitsuu

to open for use

Used for roads, railways and communications. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

橋はしは開通かいつうしている。
The bridge is open to traffic.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
たくさんの人ひとが新あたらしい橋はしの開通かいつう式しきに参列さんれつした。
Quite a few people attended the opening ceremony of the new bridge.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
国道一号線こくどういちごうせんの拡張かくちょうや東海道本線とうかいどうほんせんの開通かいつうにより町まちが廃すたれてしまった。
The town declined following the expansion of National Route 1 and the opening of JR Tokaido Main Line.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 開通

開open; unfoldOnカイKunひらく・ひらき・ひらける
通traffic; pass throughOnツウ・ツKunとおる・とおり・とおす

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