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Kanji Detail for 村 - "village"

村

  • Meaning

    村 means "village." Also associated with countryside, administrative unit.

    1. Village - A rural community; a hamlet.

    2. Countryside - Rural; rustic; provincial.

    3. Administrative unit - A type of local government division.

  • Words using 村

    • 農村 のうそん Listen agricultural community; farm village; rural
    • 市町村 しちょうそん Listen cities, towns and villages; municipalities
    • 山村 さんそん Listen mountain village
    • 村長 そんちょう Listen village headman; village mayor
    • 町村 ちょうそん Listen towns and villages
    • 村人 むらびと Listen villager
    • 選手村 せんしゅむら Listen Olympic village; athlete's village
    • 村民 そんみん Listen villager

  • Tattoo check: 村

    • Verified meaning: village
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read けいそん, たくはる, たくみ, むら)
    • Also carries these associations: countryside, administrative unit

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 村

    Given names 村(けいそん)Listen

    Surnames 村(たくはる)Listen 村(たくみ)Listen 村(むら)Listen 村(むらさき)Listen 村(むらざき)Listen 村(むらすえ)Listen 村(むらたか)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    village; town

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    village, hamlet; uncouth, vulgar

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    village; (dialect) to scold; rustic; boorish

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    village, hamlet; vulgar, uncouth

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A settlement. Such as 村莊 (village). | The rustic is called 村. Such as 村氣 (rustic manner).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    son(ソン) ソン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    mura(むら) むら

  • Strokes

    tip

    7 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    village countryside administrative unit rural rustic hamlet agrarian agriculture bucolic community farming local neighborhood pastoral provincial settlement simplicity small-town tradition

Sentences including 村

  • An hour's walk brought me to the next village.

  • My brother lives in a small village.

  • It will become more and more difficult to live in the village.

  • The hospital was far away from his village.

  • Once there lived an old man in a village.

  • This is the village where he was born.

  • The road ascends to the village.

  • This is the village where the poet was born.

  • If you take this bus , you will get to the village.

  • I reached the village before dark.

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