Meanings
Counter
1. counter for houses, households, apartments, etc.
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (22 in total)
non-drinker; someone who cannot drink
family register; census
all the houses (in town)
open air; outdoors; outside
Ministry of Revenue (Tang-dynasty China)
houses and inhabitants; population
number of households (houses)
(separate) house; detached house
head of a household
all houses; many houses
dwelling unit (esp. in apartment block, etc.)
from door to door
house-to-house; door-to-door; each house
each house; every house
private house
tradesman (in the ritsuryō system)
rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)
unsold apartment (usu. newly built); remaining apartments (unsold)
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
imperial tomb guard
household with at least one member subject to taxation (ritsuryo system)
Examples (2 in total)
Two hundred houses were burnt down in the fire which broke out yesterday.
This is a map of Ninohe District.