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 が 見つけた の は1 丁 の ハサミ だけ だった。
I found nothing but a pair of scissors.
合衆国 で は2 億1600 万 丁 も の 鉄砲 類 が、 民間の 手 に ある と いう。
In the U.S., as many as 216 million firearms are said to be in private hands.