Kanji1 / 2
丁 kanji
street, ward, town, counter for guns, tools, leaves or cakes of something, even number, 4th calendar sign
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 2
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
チョウテイチントウチ
Kun readings
ひのと
Words with 丁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —次丁old and lightly handicapped men (ritsuryō system)
- —仕丁men pressed into forced labor (ritsuryō system); palanquin bearer (Edo period)
- —少丁men 17-20 years, subject to a quarter of the obligations of older men (ritsuryō system)
- —白丁young man of conscription age who has not yet undergone military training; man with no title and no rank (under the ritsuryō system); commoner; servant dressed in a white uniform who carries objects for his master
- —町丁towns and villages (official urban area classification)
- —追丁eight (in mekuri karuta); third-rank prostitute in the Kyoto red-light districts
- —背丁signature; print signature
- —口八丁voluble; eloquent
- —丁付けpaging; pagination; numbering
- —一丁前adult; grown-up; person who has come of age; fully fledged; established; qualified
- —丁子油clove oil
- —長丁場long stretch; long haul; marathon; time-consuming work; long scene (in a play); long act
- —手八丁eloquence; cleverness in speaking
- —二丁鎌two sickles used in Okinawan Kobudo
- —丁字桜clove cherry (Prunus apetala)
- —丁合いcollation of sections (bookbinding); gathering
- —和包丁Japanese-style kitchen knife (esp. with single-beveled blade)
- —洋包丁Western-style kitchen knife (esp. with double-beveled blade)
- —包丁人cook; chef
- —包丁師cook; chef