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)
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
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
hectare (2.471 acres)
name of a town; name of a street; name of a neighborhood
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
cities and towns
town councillor; town council member
the same town; that town
town organization; town organisation; town administration
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)
town organization; town organisation; town administration
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.