ちょう
Meanings
Noun
1. town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood
esp. 町
2. street; road
3. 109.09 m
when read as "ちょう"
4. 0.99 hectares
when read as "ちょう"
Kanji used
town
Pitch accent
ちょ
Used in vocabulary (39 in total)
① 地方公共団体の町の首長。
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
① 町の中。
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
① 地方行政単位である「町」の住民。
towns and villages
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
Nagata-chō (Japan's political center; equiv. of Downing Street)
town originally built around a temple or shrine
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
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。
Edo-period official of the chōnin social class; town official
Kabutochō (neighbourhood of Nihonbashi, Tokyo, where the Tokyo Stock Exchange is located); Tokyo Stock Exchange
cities and towns
① 「町議会議員」の略。
the same town; that town
① 町の政治、行政。
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)
① 町の政治、行政。
most specific part of an address (postal term); neighbourhood
long stretch; long haul; marathon; long scene (in a play); long act
roadside stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one chō (approx. 109 meters)
Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo (faction of the LDP)
units of square measure (for rice fields, forests, etc.)
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)
Shōwachō Station (Kagawa)
Examples (200 in total)
The town slept.
What a large town!
Welcome to the town of Westhampton.