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

街

  • Meaning

    街 means "street, town, district."

    1. Street - A road in a town.

    2. Town - An urban area.

    3. District - A neighborhood.

  • Words using 街

    • 街頭 がいとう Listen (on the) street
    • 市街 しがい Listen urban areas; the streets; town
    • 繁華街 はんかがい Listen business district; shopping district; bustling street
    • 住宅街 じゅうたくがい Listen residential area
    • 市街地 しがいち Listen town area; urban area; metropolitan area
    • 街道 かいどう Listen highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success)
    • 街角 まちかど Listen street corner
    • 街宣車 がいせんしゃ Listen sound truck (used for campaigning, advertising or propaganda); loudspeaker van; (right-wing) propaganda vehicle

  • Four-character idioms with 街

    • 柳巷花街 りゅうこうかがい Listen red-light district; pleasure quarter
    • 街談巷語 がいだんこうご Listen street gossips and idle rumors; hearsay
    • 街談巷説 がいだんこうせつ Listen street gossips and idle rumors

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    • Verified meaning: street, town, district
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ちまた, つじ, まち)

    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 街

    Given names 街(まち)Listen

    Surnames 街(ちまた)Listen 街(つじ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    boulevard; street; town

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    street, road, thoroughfare

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    street; CL:條|条[tiao2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    street, road, thoroughfare

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

    A road leading in four directions. Today all roads in cities are called 街.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    gai(ガイ) ガイ

    kai(カイ) カイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    machi(まち) まち

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    行 (gyo・gyogamae・yukigamae)

  • Related Keywords

    street town district alley crossroads city area borough commerce community neighborhood settlement suburb urban village avenue block downtown

Sentences including 街

  • How many people live in your town?

  • He got lost in the city.

  • There once lived a rich man in this town.

  • His son was lost in the town.

  • My town is not what it used to be.

  • I want to see the streets.

  • Tokyo is a very big city.

  • We enjoyed seeing the city , but we got a little tired.

  • He lived in a town near by.

  • There's an old movie theater in town.

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