town, village, block, street
町 centers on a defined area of human settlement: a town or village, and by extension the streets and blocks that make it up.
町 combines 田 (rice field) and 丁, which likely contributes the sound. The character originally referred to a path between fields, later extending to a town or village area.
The left side is a rice field 田, and the right side looks like a street sign 丁. Picture a street running beside a field, forming a small town.
For チョウ, imagine a town chief named Chou walking down the main street: Chou -> チョウ, and he knows every block in the village.
town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood
cities, towns and villages; municipalities
neighborhood; neighbourhood; street; block; town
belle; (town) beauty
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.)
towns and villages
town mayor
Muromachi period (1336-1573)
downtown
townsman; townswoman; resident of a town; townspeople; townsfolk
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord
Nagata-chō (Japan's political center; equiv. of Downing Street)
country town; rural town
cities and towns
port city; harbor city; harbour city
sponsors of rikishi or their stables
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
machiya; traditional wooden townhouse
town council