# 町 — Town

Frequency rank 450 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 証 (Evidence), less common than 則 (Rule).

- On’yomi: ちょう
- Kun’yomi: まち
- Radical: 田 Field (Kangxi 102)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A rice paddy (rice paddy) on the left and a street (street) on the right — the rice paddy borders the main street of a small farming town.

In words:

- 町 まち — town,city
- 下町 したまち — Shitamachi,lower parts of town

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