- 1. [ctr] counter for long and narrow things (e.g. guns, spades, hoes, oars, ink sticks, candles, abacuses, kitchen knives, scissors, shamisen, violins); counter for palanquins, rickshaws, and similar vehicles
Kanji in this word
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丁
street, ward, town, counter for guns, tools, leaves or cakes of something, even number, 4th calendar signOn: チョウ (chou)、 テイ (tei)、 チン (chin)、 トウ (tou)、 チ (chi)Kun: ひのと (hinoto)
Example Sentences
私が見つけたのは1丁のハサミだけだった。
I found nothing but a pair of scissors.