Kanji: 町

    • Meaning : town,village,block,street
    • ON reading : チョウ
    • KUN reading : まち
    • Nanori :
    • Stroke count : 7
    • Frequency of use ranking : 292
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 3
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • - まちぜんたい - the whole town
  • - ながたちょう - Nagata-chou (Japan's political center; equiv. of Downing Street)
  • | - ちょういし - roadside stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one cho (approx. 109 meters)
  • - ちょうせきそとば - stupa-shaped stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one cho (approx. 109 meters) on a temple approach
  • - したまちふう - downtown style
  • - したまち - Shitamachi/lower parts of town
  • | - まちかど - street corner
  • - りょうしまち - fishing village
  • - みなとまち - port city
  • - かばきこまちぐも | カバキコマチグモ - Japanese foliage spider (Chiracanthium japonicum)
  • - しちょうそん - cities, towns and villages/municipalities
  • - しちょう - cities and towns
  • - こまち - a belle/town beauty
  • - じょうかまち - castle town/town around castle
  • - むろまちじだい - Muromachi period (1333-1573 CE)
  • - むろまちばくふ - Muromachi shogunate (1336-1573 CE)
  • - にほんじんまち - Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
  • - にほんまち - Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
  • はずれ - まちはずれ - outskirts of town
  • - ちょうにん - merchant
  • - ちょうぶ - hectare (2.471 acres)
  • れ - まちはずれ - outskirts
  • - ちょうない - neighborhood/neighbourhood/street/block/town
  • - ちょうかい - town council
  • - ちょうちょう - town headman/town mayor
  • | - ちょうか | まちや - house in the middle of a town | merchant's family/merchant's house
  • - ちょうそん - towns and villages
  • - ちょうみん - townspeople
  • - どうちょう - the same town/that town
  • - なんきんまち - Chinatown
  • - にのまち - inferior/second-rate
  • - たにまち - sponsors of sumo rikishi or their stables
  • - まちむらは - Machimura Faction (of the LDP)
  • - ばんちょうせいさくけんきゅうじょ - Bancho Seisaku Kenkyujo (faction of the LDP)
  • | - うらまち - back street/back alley/slums
  • | - かがい | はなまち - red-light district/prostitution quarter/geisha quarter
  • し | こし | おこし - まちおこし - revitalization of a town/town renewal (project)
  • | - よこちょう - lane/alley/small street intersecting a main or side street
  • | - まち | ちょう - town/block/neighbourhood/neighborhood | street/road | 109.09 m | 0.99 hectares
  • | み | み | - まちなみ - street (of stores and houses)/townscape/(look of) stores and houses on street
  • - まちなか - downtown
  • - ちょうにんかたぎ - townsman's (independent) spirit/mercantile spirit
  • - むろまち - Muromachi (era 1392-1573, or 1333-1573, or 1336-1573)
  • - ちょうりつ - established by the town
  • - したまちじょうちょ - the friendly atmosphere of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods
  • - ちょうにんふぜい - (the likes of) a mere tradesman
  • - まちこうば | まちこうじょう - small factory in town/backstreet (small) workshop
  • - まちすじ - street
  • - ちょうにんこんじょう - townsman's (independent) spirit/mercantile spirit
  • - はっぴゃくやちょう - the whole enormous extent of Edo/from one side of Edo to the other
  • - もんぜんまち | もんぜんちょう - town originally built around a temple or shrine
  • - したまちにんじょう - the milk of human kindness of the people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods
  • | - ちょうせい - town organization/town organisation/town administration
  • - したまちことば - working-class accent or dialect
  • - しちょうちょうちょうせんきょ - mayoral election
  • | - まちじゅう - the whole town
  • - ちょうないかい - neighborhood association/neighbourhood association
  • - まちやくにん - municipal official
  • - まちぶぎょう - (Edo-period) town magistrate
  • - まちかた - town
  • - まちやくば - town hall
  • - まちどうじょう - martial arts school situated in a town
  • - ちょうめい - name of a town or street
  • - ちょうそんがっぺい - merger of towns and villages
  • - ちょうぎかい - town council
  • - ちょうにんもの - novels or plays about the merchant class
  • - まちいしゃ - physician in private practice (practise) | town doctor/doctor who served the the townspeople (as opposed to the emperor, a daimyo, etc.)
  • - ちょうそんせい - municipal system
  • | - いろまち - red-light district
  • - やしきまち - residential area
  • - となりまち - neighboring (adjacent) town/neighbouring town
  • - おんせんまち - hot-spring resort/spa town
  • - まちをつらぬくみち - road passing through the town
  • く - まちへいく - to go to town
  • る - まちをとおる - to pass through town
  • - ちょうたんせぶ - units of square measure (for rice fields, forests, etc.)
  • - ちょうのほうしん - town policies
  • - とうかいどうすじのまち - towns on the Tokaido