街

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

街 (Kangxi radical 144, 行+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人土土弓 (HOGGN), four-corner 2110₄, composition ⿴行圭 or ⿲彳圭亍)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1109, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34051
• Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 831, character 16
• Unihan data for U+8857

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kreː, *kreː) : semantic 行 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Definitions

街

1. (countable) street (Classifier: 條／条 m c)

   街景  ―  jiējǐng  ―  street scene

   地下街  ―  dìxiàjiē  ―  underground street

   行落兩條街大把嘢食。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   行落两条街大把嘢食。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   haang⁴ lok⁶ loeng⁵ tiu⁴ gaai¹ daai⁶ baa² je⁵ sik⁶.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. market; fair
3. Short for 街道 (jiēdào, “subdistrict”).

   新港街  ―  Xīngǎng Jiē  ―  Xingang Subdistrict

4. (Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively) distance; margin (Classifier: 條／条 c)

   贏九條街／赢九条街 [Cantonese]  ―  jeng⁴ gau² tiu⁴ gaai¹   ―  to win by a large margin (literally, “to win with a distance of nine street blocks”)

5. (Hong Kong Cantonese) outside; the public

   街外人 [Cantonese]  ―  gaai¹ ngoi⁶ jan⁴   ―  outsider

   街症 [Cantonese]  ―  gaai¹ zing³   ―  outpatient clinic

6. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

• → Bouyei: gaail
• → White Hmong: kev
• → Zhuang: gai

References

• “Entry #9010”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
• “街”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. main street or boulevard

Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: かい (kai, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan’yō-on: がい (gai, Jōyō)
• Kun: まち (machi, 街, Jōyō)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) まち​ (Odaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

街(まち) • (machi) 

1. Alternative spelling of 町

Derived terms

• 街(まち)明(あ)かり (machiakari), 街(まち)明(あか)り (machiakari)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 街 (MC kea|keaj). Recorded as Middle Korean 개 (kay) (Yale: kay) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

• (street; road):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
• (in 街道 and 街頭):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

街

Wikisource

街 (eumhun 거리 가 (geori ga))

1. Hanja form^? of 가 (“street; road”).

Compounds

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

街: Hán Nôm readings: nhai

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