ちょう
Meanings
Noun
1. town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood
esp. 町
2. downtown; main street
3. street; road
4. 109.09 m
when read as "ちょう"
5. 0.99 hectares
when read as "ちょう"
Pitch accent
ちょ
Used in vocabulary (35 in total)
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
town road
Kabutochō (neighbourhood of Nihonbashi, Tokyo, where the Tokyo Stock Exchange is located); Tokyo Stock Exchange
① 地方行政単位である「町」の住民。
town originally built around a temple or shrine
① 町の中。
① 江戸の代名詞。江戸八百八町で、江戸が非常に大きい町であることを表していて、江戸を省略する。
Nagata-chō (Japan's political center; equiv. of Downing Street)
the same town; that town
① 地方公共団体の町の首長。
townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family
towns and villages
town council
① 山林や田畑の面積の単位。1町歩は約9917.36m^2。
name of a town; name of a street; name of a neighborhood
Edo-period official of the chōnin social class; town official
① 「町議会議員」の略。
town council
① 町の政治、行政。
cities and towns
town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)
town originally built around a Shinto shrine
assisting town official (Edo period)
most specific part of an address (postal term); neighbourhood
units of square measure (for rice fields, forests, etc.)
Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo (faction of the LDP)
stupa-shaped stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one chō (approx. 109 meters) on a temple approach
towns and villages (official urban area classification)
Suehirochō Station (Tokyo)
Shintomichō Station (Tokyo)
Inarichō Station
Shōwachō Station (Kagawa)
Chidorichō Station