Onyomi: チョウ · Kunyomi: まち · Meanings: block, street, town, village
Kanji for block, street, town, village
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The kanji 町 combines the “field” radical (田) with a component representing a settlement or small community, symbolizing cultivated land within a village. In ancient times, it represented a district or town where people lived and worked. 町 came to mean town, neighborhood, or street, capturing community and habitation.
Fields within a settlement — 町 means town, neighborhood, or district.
Imagine a small community with houses and fields — that’s 町, the kanji for town or neighborhood.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 町 | まち | town, block, neighbourhood, neighborhood | common JLPT-N3 JLPT-N5 Noun |
| 町 | ちょう | town, block, neighbourhood, neighborhood | Noun |
| 街角 | まちかど | street corner | common JLPT-N2 Noun |
| 町中 | まちなか | downtown | common Noun |
| 町並み | まちなみ | townscape, street (of stores and houses), (look of) stores and houses on street | common Noun |
| 町民 | ちょうみん | townsman, townswoman, resident of a town, townspeople, townsfolk | common Noun |
| 町外れ | まちはずれ | outskirts (of a town), edge (of a town), just outside the city limits | common Noun |
| 町人 | ちょうにん | chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants), townspeople, townsfolk, tradespeople | Noun |
| 町奉行 | まちぶぎょう | (Edo-period) town magistrate | Noun |
| 町村 | ちょうそん | towns and villages | common Noun |