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Kanji Detail for 町 - "town"

町

  • Meaning

    町 means "town." Also associated with district, rice paddy ridge.

    1. Ridge - Field ridges; pathways between rice paddies.

    2. Town - A type of local government municipality.

    3. Unit - A unit of area or distance.

  • Words using 町

    • 市町村 しちょうそん Listen cities, towns and villages; municipalities
    • 同町 どうちょう Listen the same town; that town
    • 町長 ちょうちょう Listen town mayor
    • 町内 ちょうない Listen neighborhood; neighbourhood; street
    • 下町 したまち Listen low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
    • 町村 ちょうそん Listen towns and villages
    • 町民 ちょうみん Listen townsman; townswoman; resident of a town
    • 町並み まちなみ Listen townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

  • Tattoo check: 町

    • Verified meaning: town
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ちょう, まち, やなまち, やまぎまち)
    • Also carries these associations: district, rice paddy ridge

    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 町

    Given names 町(まち)Listen

    Surnames 町(ちょう)Listen 町(やなまち)Listen 町(やまぎまち)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    town; village; block; street

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    raised path between fields

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (used in place names)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    a raised path between fields

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

    Field boundaries. Such as saying 町畦 (field plots) and such. | Japan's unit for measuring distance. Six feet make one ken. Sixty ken make one cho. Thirty-six cho make one ri. For measuring area, thirty-six square feet make one tsubo. Thirty tsubo make one se. One hundred se make one cho.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    choh(チョウ) チョウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    machi(まち) まち

  • Strokes

    tip

    7 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    田 (ta・tahen)

  • Related Keywords

    town district rice paddy ridge field city street block avenue borough intersection lane municipality neighborhood paddies pathways plaza settlement square unit

Sentences including 町

  • Jane came to our town three years ago.

  • This is by far the tallest building in this city.

  • His name is the glory of this town.

  • My shop is on the main street of the town.

  • We passed through a town at night.

  • He is on the town.

  • Is there a museum in this town?

  • He has a great attachment to this town.

  • This town is quite different from what it was ten years ago.

  • The city has a large population.

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