町

町 U+753A, 町 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-753A ← 甹 [U+7539] CJK Unified Ideographs 画 → [U+753B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (Japan)

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𬏈, 𤨀

References

• 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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		町
alternative forms		圢

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (丁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
圢	*tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋʔ
町	*tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ, *deːŋʔ
打	*rteŋʔ, *teːŋʔ
盯	*rteŋʔ, *rdeŋ
朾	*rteːŋ, *rdeːŋ
丁	*rteːŋ, *teːŋ
玎	*rteːŋ, *teːŋ
虰	*rdeːŋ, *tʰeŋ, *teːŋ
揨	*rdeːŋ
釘	*teːŋ, *teːŋs
靪	*teːŋ, *teːŋʔ
仃	*teːŋ
叮	*teːŋ
疔	*teːŋ
頂	*teːŋʔ
奵	*teːŋʔ
耵	*teːŋʔ
酊	*teːŋʔ
葶	*teːŋʔ, *deːŋ
矴	*teːŋs
訂	*teːŋs, *tʰeːŋ, *deːŋʔ
飣	*teːŋs
汀	*tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋs
艼	*tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ
庁	*tʰeːŋ
婷	*deːŋ
停	*deːŋ
聤	*deːŋ
渟	*deːŋ
楟	*deːŋ
亭	*deːŋ

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

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǐng (ting³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ting²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): théng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǐng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻing³
    • Yale: tǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tiing
    • Palladius: тин (tin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ting²
    • Yale: tíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ting²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ting²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɪŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: théng
    • Tâi-lô: thíng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: teang
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰiɪŋ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: theng, dengX, thengX

Rime
Character	町	町	町
Reading #	1/4	3/4	4/4
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	定 (7)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	青 (125)	青 (125)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV	IV
Fanqie	他丁切	徒鼎切	他鼎切
Baxter	theng	dengX	thengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰeŋ/	/deŋX/	/tʰeŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰeŋ/	/deŋX/	/tʰeŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɛŋ/	/dɛŋX/	/tʰɛŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛjŋ/	/dɛjŋX/	/tʰɛjŋX/
Li Rong	/tʰeŋ/	/deŋX/	/tʰeŋX/
Wang Li	/tʰieŋ/	/dieŋX/	/tʰieŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰieŋ/	/dʱieŋX/	/tʰieŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tīng	dìng	tǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ting1	ding6	ting2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tʰˤeŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰeːŋ/, /*tʰeːŋʔ/, /*deːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	町
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tǐng
Middle Chinese	‹ thengX ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰˁeŋʔ/
English	then(g)X.thwanX "trampled (field)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	町	町	町
Reading #	2/4	3/4	4/4
No.	2399	2403	2413
Phonetic component	丁	丁	丁
Rime group	耕	耕	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	汀	珽	挺
Old Chinese	/*tʰeːŋ/	/*tʰeːŋʔ/	/*deːŋʔ/

Definitions

町

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

Compounds

• 町畦
• 町畽

 

Pronunciation 2

Spelling pronunciation, as 丁 (dīng).

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dīng (ding¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ding¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): teng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ding
    • Wade–Giles: ting¹
    • Yale: dīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ding
    • Palladius: дин (din)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ding¹
    • Yale: dīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ding¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ding¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng
    • Tâi-lô: ting
    • Phofsit Daibuun: defng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴/

Definitions

町

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

Compounds

• 東門町 / 东门町
• 歌舞伎町 (Gēwǔjì Dīng)
• 畹町 (Wǎndīng)
• 西門町 / 西门町 (Xīméndīng)

 

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhèng (zheng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄥˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhèng
    • Wade–Giles: chêng⁴
    • Yale: jèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenq
    • Palladius: чжэн (čžɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹/

Definitions

町

1. plain

Pronunciation 4

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiǎn (tian³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tiǎn
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien³
    • Yale: tyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tean
    • Palladius: тянь (tjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn²¹⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: thenX

Rime
Character	町
Reading #	2/4
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	他典切
Baxter	thenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰenX/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰenX/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɛnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛnX/
Li Rong	/tʰenX/
Wang Li	/tʰienX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰienX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tin2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰeːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	町
Reading #	1/4
No.	2367
Phonetic component	丁
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	腆
Old Chinese	/*tʰeːnʔ/

Definitions

町

1. Only used in 町疃.

Japanese

Kanji

町

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

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

Readings

• 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)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
町
まち Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
街

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

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

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) まち [màchíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ma̠t͡ɕi]

Noun

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)

Proper noun

町(まち) • (Machi) 

1. a surname

Suffix

町(まち) • (-machi) 

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

See also

• 街(まち) (machi)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
町
ちょう Grade: 1
goon

Suffix

町(ちょう) • (-chō) ^{←ちやう (-tyau)?}

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

Korean

Hanja

町 (eumhun 밭두둑 정 (batduduk jeong))

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

Vietnamese

Han character

町: Hán Nôm readings: đinh, thĩnh

1. city