丁 — 2 strokes ／ Radical「一」
道8Elementary year 3 ／ 2 strokes ／ Radical「一」
- On
- チョウ・テイちょう・てい · chō · tei
- Kun
- —
- Meaning
- block (town), counter
Stroke order
Origin
A picture of the head of a nail seen from above. Later it came to mean town blocks and a counter for things.
Readings and examples
| Onチョウちょうchō | 丁数ちょうすう落丁らくちょう二丁目にちょうめ |
|---|---|
| Onテイていtei | 丁字路ていじろ甲乙丙丁こうおつへいてい |
Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 丁目ちょうめ
district number
- 包丁ほうちょう
kitchen knife
- 丁寧ていねい
- 庖丁ほうちょう
- 瀞八丁どろはっちょう
- 馬丁ばてい
- 装丁そうてい
- 丁髷ちょんまげ
Example
二丁目に すんで います。
I live in the second district.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)