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Japanese

Kanji in this term
とお
Grade: 2

Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
通り掛る
通りかかる

Verb

(とお)()かる (tōrikakaruとほりかかる (toforikakaru)?intransitive godan (stem (とお)()かり (tōrikakari), past (とお)()かった (tōrikakatta))

  1. happen to pass by; pass through
    • 2025 August 6, “尾鷲の路上で80代 熱中症疑い、死亡”, in 中日新聞 [Chunichi Shimbun], 朝刊(市民版) [Nagoya morning] edition, number 29696, 社会, page 24:
      5日午後2時20分ごろ、三重県尾鷲市の路上で80代の女性が倒れているのを通りかかった人が見つけ、119番した。
      Itsuka gogo ni ji ni jippun goro, Mie-ken Owase-shi no rojō de hachi jū dai no josei ga taorete iru no o tōrikakatta hito ga mitsuke, hyaku jū kyū ban shita.
      At around 2:20 p.m. on the 5th, a passerby found a woman in her 80s collapsed on the street in Owase City, Mie Prefecture, and called 119.

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