Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

町: town, village

Also: block, street

JLPT N47 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met

田 carries the meaning · 丁 gives the sound

7 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

チョウchou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 町長ちょうちょうtown headman
  • 町名ちょうめいname of a town
  • 市町村しちょうそんcities, towns and villages

まちmachi · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 町まちtown
  • 町並みまちなみthe appearance of a town/street
  • 下町したまちold commercial area of Tokyo

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)田 field (meaning) + 丁 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 町 (rev. 94490121), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Rice field (田) + nail/block (丁). Represents an area divided into specific "blocks" or "rice fields" where people settled together—the origin of a small "town."”
From the 田 rice paddy story
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
田

Also built on rice paddy (田)

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丁

Also built on street (丁)

町 takes the 丁 family's reading, チョウ (chou).

Also read チョウ

39 kanji share this on'yomiAll 39

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
町 town · 田 + 丁
vs画 brush-stroke · 一 + 由 + 凵
町 has 田 + 丁 where 画 has 一 + 由 + 凵.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · tǐng, dīng

Same form: 町 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
町 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
町 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin tǐng, dīng most common readings

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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