Meanings
Counter
1. counter for houses, households, apartments, etc.
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
open air; outdoors; outside
family register; census
non-drinker; someone who cannot drink
number of households (houses)
all the houses (in town)
dwelling unit (esp. in apartment block, etc.)
tradesman (in the ritsuryō system)
unsold apartment (usu. newly built); remaining apartments (unsold)
Ministry of Revenue (Tang-dynasty China)
houses and inhabitants; population
(separate) house; detached house
head of a household
all houses; many houses
from door to door
house-to-house; door-to-door; each house
each house; every house
private house
rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
imperial tomb guard
household with at least one member subject to taxation (ritsuryo system)
Jōko Station
Examples (2 in total)
Two hundred houses were burnt down in the fire which broke out yesterday.
This is a map of Ninohe District.