町
町 — jeong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 밭두둑 정
- Romanization
- jeong
- English
- raised path between fields
- Mandarin
- tǐng
- Japanese on'yomi
- チョウ, テイ, ジョウ, トウ, テン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- まち
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #292 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 7
- Variant forms
- 甼
- Radical
- 田 (102, 2 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 丁(정)
- Unicode
- U+753A
Parts that make up 町
How 町 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 町 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 田, 丁.
Korean example words with 町
- 정보町步 Korean gloss: 땅 넓이의 단위. 정(町)으로 끝나고 우수리가 없을 때 쓴다. 1정보는 3,000평으로 약 9,917.4㎡에 해당한다
- 정휴町畦 Korean gloss: 밭둑이나 밭이랑을 통틀어 이르는 말.
- 정당町當 Korean gloss: 넓이가 한 정보에 해당함을 이르는 말.
- 정미町米 Korean gloss: 부피의 단위. 1정미는 논 1정보에 해당하는 넓이에 높이 1미터인 공간에 채울 수 있는 물의 양으로 본래 9,917㎥이나 편의
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 町
- 町まち town; block; neighbourhood
- 市町村しちょうそん cities, towns and villages; municipalities
- 同町どうちょう the same town; that town
- 町長ちょうちょう town mayor
- 町内ちょうない neighborhood; neighbourhood; street
- 下町したまち 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)
- 町村ちょうそん towns and villages
- 町民ちょうみん townsman; townswoman; resident of a town
- 町並みまちなみ townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
- 室町むろまち Muromachi period (1336-1573)
- 町役場まちやくば town hall
- 町議会ちょうぎかい town council
Characters sharing the phonetic 丁
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “정” in Korean.
Other hanja read “정”
Other hanja with radical 田
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences