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Kanji Detail for 町 - "town, street, district"

  • Meaning

    町 means "town, street, district."

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

    2. Town - A type of local government municipality.

    3. Unit - A unit of area or distance.

  • 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.
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Sentences including

  • 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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