0063 町

町

This character is pronounced CHŌ or machi in Japanese, meaning ‘street, town, quarter’ and dīng in Chinese, meaning ‘a raised path between fields.’ The right-hand element

田

means ‘a field, a (rice) paddy,’ and the right-hand element

丁

means ‘a city block-size area,’ and is also used as a counter for dishes of food, blocks of tofu, and guns (!) in Japanese, but in Chinese it means ‘a male adult; robust, vigorous.’ Wieger says it originally pictured a nail, with the head and the shank apparent.

It’s easy enough to remember ‘field,’ based on the left-hand element, and the right-hand element could be seen as two streets coming together in a T-junction.