Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N1

1312 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 2

Meaning: street, ward, town, counter for guns, tools, leaves or cakes of something, even number, 4th calendar sign

Kunyomi: ひのと

Onyomi: チョウ テイ チン トウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: いち

Meaning: one

Strokes: 1

Examples

Examples with audio

(ちょう)   counter for guns and tofu

度(ちょうど)   just, right, exactly

々発止(ちょうちょうはっし)   crossing of swords, argument

(ほうちょう)   kitchen knife, carving knife

(らくちょう)   missing pages

目(にちょうめ)   2-choume (in address)

豆腐一(とうふいっちょう)   one cake of tofu

拳銃二(けんじゅうにちょう)   two pistols

寧な(ていねいな)   polite, courteous, careful

重な(ていちょうな)   polite, courteous

Onyomi Examples

チョウ counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars

チョウ counter for leaves in a book (esp. one with traditional Japanese-style binding), counter for blocks of tofu, counter for servings in a restaurant, even number, chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m)

イッチョウ one sheet, one page, one leaf, one block of tofu, one serving (in a restaurant), one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.), one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m), one game, one task, well then, come then

柳刃包 ヤナギバボウチョウ kitchen knife for sashimi

テイ fourth rank, fourth class, fourth party (in a contract, etc.), fourth sign of the Chinese calendar, Denmark

テイネイ polite, courteous, civil, careful, close, thorough, conscientious

ソウテイ binding (of a book), design (of a book cover)

セイテイ man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryō system)

チンキ tincture

亜爾然 アルゼンチン Argentina

チョウチョウ clashing of swords, felling of trees, ringing of an ax

チョウチョウ clashing of swords, felling of trees, ringing of an ax

チョウ counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars

チョウ counter for leaves in a book (esp. one with traditional Japanese-style binding), counter for blocks of tofu, counter for servings in a restaurant, even number, chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m)

Kunyomi Examples

てい fourth rank, fourth class, fourth party (in a contract, etc.), fourth sign of the Chinese calendar, Denmark

ひのとう Fire Rabbit (4th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1927, 1987, 2047)