丁

Meaning

丁 centers on a discrete, countable unit or block: a street ward, a town block, an even number, or a counter for items like tools and leaves. The 4th calendar sign extends this idea of a fixed, ordered position.

• 丁度ちょうど
  N4

  exactly; precisely; just; right; opportunely; fortunately

• 丁ちょう

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

• 丁寧ていねい
  N4

  polite; courteous; civil

• 包丁ほうちょう
  N3

  kitchen knife

• 横丁よこちょう

  bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane

• 装丁そうてい

  binding (of a book)

• 丁髷ちょんまげ

  chonmage; topknot hairstyle worn by men in the Edo period, and sumo wrestlers today

• 丁重ていちょう

  polite; courteous; hospitable

• 長丁場ながちょうば

  long stretch; long haul; marathon; time-consuming work

• 丁稚でっち

  apprentice; shop boy

• 八丁はっちょう

  skillfulness

• 丁子ちょうじ

  clove (Syzygium aromaticum)

• 一丁いっちょう

  one leaf (of a book bound in Japanese style)

• 丁字ていじ

  letter "T"

• 沈丁花じんちょうげ

  winter daphne (Daphne odora)

• 丁半ちょうはん

  even and odd numbers (on dice)

• 口八丁くちはっちょう

  voluble; eloquent

• 白丁はくちょう

  young man of conscription age who has not yet undergone military training

• 出刃包丁でばぼうちょう

  broad-bladed kitchen knife (for dressing fish); deba knife

• 符丁ふちょう

  symbol; sign; mark

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