街

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 行 + phonetic 圭

Han character

街 (radical 144 行+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人土土弓 (HOGGN), four-corner 2110₄)

1. street, road, thoroughfare

References

• KangXi: page 1109, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34051
• Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 831, character 16
• Unihan data for U+8857

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Cantonese

Hanzi

街 (Yale gaai1)

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Japanese

Kanji

街 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: がい (gai), かい (kai)
• Kun: まち (machi)

Noun

街 (hiragana まち, romaji machi)

1. town

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Korean

Hanja

街 (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune-Reischauer ka, Yale ka)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

街 (pinyin jiē (jie1), Wade-Giles chieh¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

街 (nhai, nhây)