町

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Stroke order (Japan)

町 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 田一弓 (WMN), four-corner 6102₀, composition ⿰田丁)

1. a raised path between fields

• 𬏈, 𤨀

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 759, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21735
• Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2528, character 5
• Unihan data for U+753A

Historical forms of the character 町
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ, *deːŋʔ) : semantic 田 (“field”) + phonetic 丁 (OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ)

町

1. a ridge or boundary between fields
2. a field

Spelling pronunciation, as 丁 (dīng).

町

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

町

1. plain

町

1. Only used in 町疃.

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

1. (まち): town
2. (あぜみち): path between fields

• Go-on: ちょう (chō, Jōyō)^{←ちやう (tyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: てい (tei)
• Kun: まち (machi, 町, Jōyō)、あぜみち (azemichi, 町)^[1]

From Old Japanese, with the original meaning of "plot of land";^[2] in turn, likely borrowed from an ancestor to Middle Korean 맡 (math, “field”).^[3]

All Japanese etymological theories base the etymology on the meaning of "town; section of a castle town", typically using 道 (chi, michi, “road”),^[4] but a Korean borrowing is more plausible given the earlier semantics in Old Japanese.

• (Tokyo) まち (Odaka – )^[4][5][6]
• IPA^(key):

町(まち) • (machi) 

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. (obsolete) a plot (of land)
19. (obsolete) a measure (of land)

町(まち) • (Machi) 

1. a surname

町(まち) • (-machi) 

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

• 街(まち) (machi)

町(ちょう) • (-chō) ^{←ちやう (-tyau)?}

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

町 (eumhun 밭두둑 정 (batduduk jeong))

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

町: Hán Nôm readings: đinh, thĩnh

1. city