Kanji
Readingちょう
Frequency45%
Used in (59 in total)
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
neighborhood; neighbourhood; street; block; town
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
neighborhood association; neighbourhood association
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)
cities, towns and villages; municipalities
town originally built around a temple or shrine
hectare (2.471 acres)
name of a town; name of a street; name of a neighborhood
established by the town
the whole enormous extent of Edo; from one side of Edo to the other
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
town management; municipal management
cities and towns
town councillor; town council member
the same town; that town
town organization; town organisation; town administration
(the likes of) a mere tradesman
local governments; municipalities
town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)
townsman's (independent) spirit; mercantile spirit
town originally built around a Shinto shrine
town councillor; town council member
assisting town official (Edo period)
novels or plays about the merchant class
merger of towns and villages
most specific part of an address (postal term); neighbourhood
local governments; municipalities
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)
townsman's (independent) spirit; mercantile spirit
name of a city, ward, town or village
Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo (faction of the LDP)
units of square measure (for rice fields, forests, etc.)
former municipal system used for some islands in Japan
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)
if you visit the toilet while traveling, you will fall behind your fellow travelers; (lit.) one chō for a piss, one ri for a shit
Suehirochō Station (Tokyo)
Shintomichō Station (Tokyo)
Fujimichō Station (Kanagawa)
Shōwachō Station (Kagawa)
Sakaechō Station (Chiba)