徹
- On
- てつ
- Kun
- —
- Stroke count
- 15
・penetrate
・clear
・pierce
・strike home
・sit up (all night)
Japanese dictionary
Dictionary: “徹する”
徹する
てっする
to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively
Example sentence
I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
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