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通う

かよう

to go to and from, to frequent a place

Mnemonic

Down the same road and back again, twice a week, for years. A gym is somewhere you go to and from, and it is a proper KO かよう by week three: かよう.

Worth knowing

通る とおる is passing through once. 通う is going regularly and coming back each time.

Built from

pass through, commute
辶 the road radical. A way that goes all the way through.

Words sharing these kanji

normal, regular, average street to pass, to take, to go through to pass, to communicate with to let pass, to run through

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