町 — town, city block, street

まち町 town

Grade 1 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes place

U+753A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #292 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #93 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

town
city block
street

word

まち machi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

町(まち) machi town 町(まち) 田(だ) machida Machida 町(まち) 中(なか) machinaka town center 下(した) 町(まち) shitamachi downtown 町(まち) 並(な) み machinami townscape

ちょう chou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

町(ちょう) 村(そん) chouson towns and villages 町(ちょう) 人(にん) chounin townsperson 市(し) 町(ちょう) 村(そん) shichouson cities, towns, and villages 町(ちょう) 内(ない) chounai neighborhood 町(ちょう) 長(ちょう) chouchou town mayor 町(ちょう) 民(みん) choumin townspeople 歌(か) 舞(ぶ) 伎(き) 町(ちょう) kabukichou Kabukicho

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

た田 rice field #102

ちょう丁 nail

Compound ideograph (会意). 田 (rice field) beside 丁 (block/nail). A town or city block — land divided into measured plots.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#102 田 rice paddy