徹
clear, penetrate, pierce, sit up (all night), strike home
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Nanori (名乗り)
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Information
Grade:8
Strokes:15
JLPT:1
Frequency:968
Vocabulary
テツ
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 徹夜 | テツヤ | staying up all night |
| 貫徹 | カンテツ | accomplishment; realization; attainment; fulfillment; achievement; penetration; pervasion |
| 透徹 | トウテツ | transparency; clarity; coherence |
| 冷徹 | レイテツ | cool-headed; level-headed; hard-headed |
| 初志貫徹 | ショシカンテツ | carrying out one's original intention |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 徹える | こたえる | to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home; to have an effect on; to be hard on someone (e.g. heat, cold, work, illness, etc.); to be a strain |
| 徹す | とおす | to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass; to allow through; to lead (someone) into (a house, room, etc.); to show in; to go through (a middleman); to (look, listen) through (a window, wall, etc.); to pass (a law, applicant, etc.); to force to accept; to force agreement; to continue (in a state); to persist in; to do to the entirety of; to cover all of; to span the whole ...; to do from beginning to end without a break; to convey (one's ideas, etc.) to the other party; to do to the end; to carry through; to complete |
| 徹る | とおる | to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to connect; to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in; to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through; to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout; to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far; to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed; to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted; to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for; to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense; to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood; to pass for; to come across as; to seem like; to be straight (e.g. wood grain); to be well-informed; to be wise; to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly |
| 徹底 | てってい | thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception |
| 徹底的 | てっていてき | thorough; exhaustive; complete |
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