町 · town, village, block

JLPT N4 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

町 means town, village, block. It is a JLPT N4 kanji written in 7 strokes, read まち or ちょう. It is built from 2 parts: 田 (rice field, rice paddy), 丁 (street, ward). It appears in 下町 (old parts of town).

筆順 · Stroke order

町 is written in 7 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

町 breaks into 2 parts.

• 田 semantic rice field, rice paddy · left carries the meaning
• 丁 other street, ward · right component

Words that use 町

Word	Reading	Meaning
町	まち	town
下町	したまち	old parts of town

Built from the same parts

These use 田 or 丁 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

• 男man
• 思think
• 畑farm

Practise 町

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