丁
Meanings
Counter
1. counter for long and narrow things (e.g. guns, spades, hoes, oars, ink sticks, candles, abacuses, kitchen knives, scissors, shamisen, violins); counter for palanquins, rickshaws, and similar vehicles
Other spellings
挺梃
Kanji used
Kanji in other spellings
Pitch accent
ちょう
Used in vocabulary
丁半博打
chō-han bakuchi; gambling game in which two dice are thrown and players bet on whether the total is odd or even
Noun
Examples2
私
I found nothing but a pair of scissors.
合衆国
In the U.S., as many as 216 million firearms are said to be in private hands.