町

Mandarin · pinyin dīng#

Meanings · dīng

  1. (used in place names)
Mandarin · pinyin tǐng#

Meanings · tǐng

  1. raised path between fields
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町
tǐng · dīng · raised path between fields
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1 · ding1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ding1 · tin2 · ting1 · ting2 · ting5

Cantonese word readings for 町. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character

  1. ridge or boundary between fields; raised path been fields
  2. field

character

  1. a local administrative unit in Japan (see below)
  2. character used in placenames

character

  1. only used in 町疃 (tiǎntuǎn) and 町畽

character

  1. plain

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