tīng, dīng, tǐng
raised path between fields
Phonosemantic compound. 田 represents the meaning and 丁 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 町
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
(used in place names) | ||
Wanding town Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture 德宏傣族景頗族自治州|德宏傣族景颇族自治州, Yunnan, on border with Myanmar (Burma) | ||
Wanding town Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture 德宏傣族景頗族自治州|德宏傣族景颇族自治州, Yunnan, on border with Myanmar (Burma) | ||
Muromachi bakufu, the feudal government of Japan (1338-1573) under the Ashikaga shoguns |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tʰˤeŋʔ | thengX | tǐng | then(g)X.thwanX 'trampled (field) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4001st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+753A |
Shuowen | “町,田踐處曰町。从田,丁聲。” |
Sources
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