Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
oneself 己 (巳, 已, 㔾)
Parts:
Variants:
fork in road, scene, arena, theater
Kun:
ちまた
On:
コウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2415 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 巷間 【コウカン】 on the street, around town, the world, the public
  • 巷説 【コウセツ】 gossip, talk about town
  • 陋巷 【ロウコウ】 narrow, dirty backstreet

Kun reading compounds

  • 巷 【ちまた】 the public, the street (e.g. "word on the street"), street, district, quarters, location (e.g. of a battle), scene (e.g. of carnage), divide (e.g. between life and death), fork (in a road), crossroads
  • 巷で話題 【ちまたでわだい】 much-talked-about, recently popular, in vogue
  • 悪の巷 【あくのちまた】 skid row, underworld
  • 修羅の巷 【しゅらのちまた】 scene of carnage

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiang4, hang4
Korean:
hang

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1465 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
974 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3097 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2162 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
8756X Morohashi
1543 New Nelson (John Haig)
1956 2001 Kanji
3k6.17 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-5 SKIP code
4471.7 Four corner code
1-25-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5df7 Unicode hex code