JLPT N2 · Noun

峠 (touge)

峠 (とうげ, touge) is a Japanese noun meaning “(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: とうげ
Romaji: touge
Word class: Noun
Level: JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge · noun, suffix noun
peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis; critical point; most difficult part · noun

Example sentences

私達が峠にさしかかる頃に雨になった。

It began to rain as we came near the pass.

Tatoeba #152033

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Kanji in 峠

峠

mountain peak, mountain pass, climaxとうげ · 9 strokes

Source: JMdict entry 1454420 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.