町

Han character

 * 1) a raised path between fields

Definitions

 * 1) a ridge or boundary between fields
 * 2) a field

Pronunciation 2
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Definitions

 * 1) a local administrative unit in Japan (see below)
 * 2) character used in placenames

Definitions

 * 1) plain

Etymology 1
From, with the original meaning of "plot of land"; in turn, likely borrowed from an ancestor to 🇨🇬.

All Japanese etymological theories base the etymology on the meaning of "town; section of a castle town", typically using, but a Korean borrowing is more plausible given the earlier semantics in Old Japanese.

Noun

 * 1) a town, a city
 * 2) a section of a palace or residence
 * 3) a section of buildings
 * 4) under the Jōbō system, a section of a castle town
 * 5) chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m)
 * 6) chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
 * 7) a section of where someone lives
 * 8) a market
 * 9) a section of a town or city
 * 10) a fortune-telling line or shape carved or drawn on the shell or bones of turtles or deer
 * 11) grade, quality
 * 12) townspeople
 * 13) the exterior of a red-light district
 * 14) the interior of a red-light district
 * 15) tax
 * 16) a subdivision making up a city
 * 17) the local government
 * 18)  a plot
 * 19)  a measure

Suffix

 * 1) A Machi district; more detailed than 都, 道, 府, 県.

Suffix

 * 1) A Chō district; more detailed than 市, 区.

Hanja

 * 1) A ridge between fields.
 * 2) A boundary.

Han character

 * 1) city