Kanji1 / 12
街 kanji
boulevard, street, town
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ガイカイ
Kun readings
まち
Words with 街
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —韓国街Koreatown
- —温泉街hot spring district (within a town)
- —ビル街downtown high-rise area; street of office buildings; area of medium to tall business buildings
- —街路灯street light; streetlamp
- —特飲街red-light district
- —市街化urbanization; urbanisation
- —細街路back road (narrower than 4 meters); narrow backstreet
- —新市街new town (of a city; as opposed to the old town); newly built part of a city
- —飲食街arcade with bars and restaurants
- —花柳街red-light district
- —スラム街slum quarters
- —街頭募金streetside fundraising
- —街頭演説roadside speech; soapbox speech
- —街頭録音(recorded) man-on-the-street interview
- —中国人街Chinatown
- —街頭犯罪street crime
- —街談巷説street gossips and idle rumors
- —街談巷語street gossips and idle rumors; hearsay
- —柳巷花街red-light district; pleasure quarter
- —街宣右翼right wing organization, esp. one using "black van" propaganda trucks