Illustration: At the entrance to a small neighborhood swimming pool, a visitor offers a distinctive scalloped admission token to the attendant. The attendant places it into a fitted recess beside several identical accepted tokens and releases the waist-high entry gate.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

通つう用よう

tsuuyou

to be accepted, to apply

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは年としの割わりに若わかく見みえるので、大学生だいがくせいとして通用つうようします。

    He looks so young for his age that he passes for a college student.

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  2. この法律ほうりつは日本にっぽんでは通用つうようしない。

    This law does not apply in Japan.

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  3. 彼女かのじょは２０歳さいといっても通用つうようする。

    She could pass for twenty.

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Kanji in 通用

  • 通traffic; pass throughOnツウ・ツKunとおる・とおり・とおす
  • 用utilize; businessOnヨウKunもちいる

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