Illustration: At an outdoor cooking table beside a family home, an adult pushes a long bamboo skewer through a small eggplant held securely over a board. The shaft enters one end, and its pointed tip has clearly emerged from the opposite end, with the intact vegetable surrounding the middle.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

貫つらぬく

tsuranuku

to pierce, to penetrate

Example sentences

光ひかりは闇やみを貫つらぬく。
The light penetrates the darkness.
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弾丸だんがんは仕切しきり壁かべを貫つらぬいた。
The bullet penetrated the partition.
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弾丸だんがんは彼かれを貫つらぬいた。
The bullet penetrated him.
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Kanji in 貫

貫pierce; 8 1/3lbsOnカンKunつらぬく・ぬく・ぬき

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