町 – vocab dash

Keyword

town

village
block
street

Frequency: #292
Strokes: 7
Grade: 1
JLPT (old): N3
Heisig: 96

Readings

まち56%

チョウ44%

Mnemonic

A street paved straight through a rice field sprouts a whole town overnight, with frogs complaining from the gutters about the noise.

Stroke order

Composed of

田rice field 丁street

Used in vocabulary

町まち

town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood; street; road

Noun

市し町ちょう村そん

cities, towns and villages; municipalities

Noun

同どう町ちょう

the same town; that town

Noun

町ちょう長ちょう

town mayor

Noun

町ちょう内ない

neighborhood; neighbourhood; street; block; town

Noun

町まち役やく場ば

town hall

Noun

下した町まち

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)

Noun

町ちょう村そん

towns and villages

Noun

町ちょう民みん

townsman; townswoman; resident of a town; townspeople; townsfolk

Noun

町まちづくり

town planning; urban development; community development; creating a community

Noun

町まち工こう場ば

small factory in town; (small) backstreet workshop

Noun

町まち角かど

street corner

Noun

町まち並なみ

townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

Noun

室むろ町まち

Muromachi period (1336-1573)

Noun

町ちょう議ぎ会かい

town council

Noun

町まち中なか

downtown

Noun

小こ町まち

belle; (town) beauty

Noun

町ちょう

town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood; street; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)

Noun

門もん前ぜん町まち

town originally built around a temple or shrine

Noun

町まち中じゅう

the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town

Noun

横よこ町ちょう

bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane

Noun

町まち外はずれ

outskirts (of a town); edge (of a town); just outside the city limits

Noun

城じょう下か町まち

castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord

Noun

町ちょう会かい

town council

Noun