| 博聞 | [はくぶん, hakubun] (adj-na,n) well-informed; erudite |
| 博覧多識 | [はくらんたしき, hakurantashiki] (n,adj-no) erudition and extensive knowledge; widely-read and well-informed |
| 情報通 | [じょうほうつう, jouhoutsuu] (n) well-informed person |
| 消息通 | [しょうそくつう, shousokutsuu] (n) well-informed person; insider |
| 熟知 | [じゅくち, jukuchi] (n,vs) being familiar with; having a thorough knowledge of; being well-informed about; (P) |
| 益者三友 | [えきしゃさんゆう, ekishasanyuu] (exp) There are three types of friends worth having--honest, sincere, and well-informed ones. (Confucius) |
| 筋(P);条 | [すじ, suji] (n) (1) muscle; tendon; sinew; (2) vein; artery; (3) fiber; fibre; string; (4) line; stripe; streak; (5) (See 筋が通る) reason; logic; (6) plot; storyline; (7) lineage; descent; (8) school (e.g. of scholarship or arts); (9) aptitude; talent; (10) source (of information, etc.); circle; channel; (11) well-informed person (in a transaction); (12) logical move (in go, shogi, etc.); (13) ninth vertical line (shogi); (14) seam on a helmet; (15) (abbr) (See 筋蒲鉾) gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.); (16) (arch) social position; status; (n-suf,n,adj-no) (17) on (a river, road, etc.); along; (suf,ctr) (18) counter for long thin things; (19) (arch) (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency); (P) |
| 識者 | [しきしゃ, shikisha] (n) well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person; (P) |
| 通じる | [つうじる, tsuujiru] (v1,vi) to run to; to lead to; to communicate; to understand; to be well-informed; (P) |
| 通ずる | [つうずる, tsuuzuru] (vz) (See 通じる) to run to; to lead to; to communicate; to understand; to be well-informed |
| 通る(P);徹る;透る | [とおる, tooru] (v5r,vi) (1) to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of; (2) (of public transport) to run (between); to operate (between); to connect; (3) to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in; (4) to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through; (5) to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout; (6) to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far; (7) to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed; (8) to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted; (9) to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for; (10) to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense; (11) to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood; (12) to be straight (e.g. wood grain); (13) (arch) to be well-informed; to be wise; (suf,v5r) (14) (after the -masu stem of a verb) to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly; (P) |
| 通人 | [つうじん, tsuujin] (n) man of the world; man about town; dilettante; well-informed person |