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街 (Kangxi radical 144,行+6, 12 strokes,cangjie input竹人土土弓 (HOGGN),four-corner2110₄,composition⿴行圭 or⿲彳圭亍)

• 𱔡

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*kreː, *kreː): semantic 行 + phonetic 圭(OC*kʷeː).

Originally, the phonetic component is not related to the concept of earth (土) since in its original form it represents a pair of ritual axes perhaps made of jade士. Hence, the link to the concept of earth in this character and厓 either comes from folk etymology or its appearance in the Small Seal script.

FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*r/g-wa(“village”) (STEDT); see里 (OC*rɯʔ, “village”) for more.

街

1. (countable)street(Classifier:條／条mc)

   街景  ― jiējǐng  ― street scene

   地下街  ― dìxiàjiē  ―  undergroundstreet

   行落兩條街大把嘢食。[Cantonese,trad.]
   行落两条街大把嘢食。[Cantonese,simp.]

   haang⁴ lok⁶ loeng⁵ tiu⁴gaai¹ daai⁶ baa² je⁵ sik⁶.[Jyutping]

   If you walk two blocks down the street, there will be a lot to eat.

2. market;fair
3. short for街道 (jiēdào, “subdistrict”)

   新港街  ― XīngǎngJiē  ―  XingangSubdistrict

4. (Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively)distance;margin(Classifier:條／条c)

   贏九條街／赢九条街[Cantonese]  ― jeng⁴ gau² tiu⁴gaai¹[Jyutping]  ―  to win by a large margin (literally, “to win with a distance of nine street blocks”)

5. (Hong Kong Cantonese)outside; thepublic

   街外人[Cantonese]  ― gaai¹ ngoi⁶ jan⁴[Jyutping]  ―  outsider

   街症[Cantonese]  ― gaai¹ zing³[Jyutping]  ―  outpatient clinic

6. asurname

• → Bouyei:gaail
• → White Hmong:kev
• → Zhuang:gai

• “街”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C.,2025.
• “街”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “街”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page149.
• 周存[Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “街”, in长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou:世界图书出版有限公司[World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.],→ISBN, page296.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. main street or boulevard

• Go-on:け(ke)
• Kan-on:かい(kai,Jōyō^†)
• Kan’yō-on:がい(gai,Jōyō)
• Kun:まち(machi,街,Jōyō)、ちまた(chimata,街)

• (Tokyo)まち[màchíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ma̠t͡ɕi]

街(まち)• (machi) 

1. alternative spelling of町

• 街(まち)明(あ)かり(machiakari),街(まち)明(あか)り(machiakari)

• IPA^(key): [ɡa̠i]

街(がい)• (-gai) 

1. town,district,area

• “街”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

FromMiddle Chinese街 (MC kea|keaj). Recorded asMiddle Korean개(kay) (Yale:kay) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (street; road):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[ka̠]
  • Phonetic hangul:[가]
• (in街道 and街頭):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[ka̠(ː)]
  • Phonetic hangul:[가(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

街

街 (eumhun거리가(geori ga))

1. hanja form^? of가(“street;road”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[3]

街:Hán Nôm readings:nhai,giai

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