No. 548 in Japanese
通信
Communication; correspondence; transmission.
In a sentence
彼は大学で通信工学を学んでいる。
He is studying communication engineering at university.
In this sentence, "通信" refers to communication technologies or systems studied as a discipline.
インターネット通信が遅いため、ファイルのダウンロードに時間がかかる。
The internet communication is slow, so downloading the file takes time.
Here, "通信" is used to describe data transmission over the internet.
私たちは頻繁にメールで通信しています。
We frequently communicate via email.
In this example, "通信" denotes the act of communicating through electronic correspondence.
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