EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street")

    ちまたではインターネットなるものがはやっています。
    People are talking about this Internet phenomenon.
  2. street; district; quarters

  3. location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)

  4. divide (e.g. between life and death)

  5. fork (in a road); crossroads

    orig. meaning

Also written 岐【ちまた】衢【ちまた】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

fork in road, scene, arena, theater

Kun
ちまた
On
コウ
Strokes
9
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2415 of 2500
Radical
oneself

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
2-4-5SKIP code
3k6.17The Kanji Dictionary
4471.7Four corner code
1956deroo
5df7Unicode hex code
1-25-11JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1465Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1543New Nelson (John Haig)
3097Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2162Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
974Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
8756XMorohashi
xiang4, hang4Pinyin reading
hangKorean reading