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Parking Horse Olden Days Park 駐 チュウ Stop Over

Kanji
Onyomi チュウ
English stop-over, reside in, resident
Examples 駐車場(ちゅうしゃじょう): parking lot; parking place
駐車(ちゅうしゃ): parking (e.g. car)
JLPT Level 2
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 955
Components 馬: horse
主: lord; chief; master; main thing; principal
Number of Strokes 15
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 187
Radical Strokes 10
Radical Reading うま・うまへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword parking
Koohii Story 1 In the olden days you had to park your horse next to a candlestick, a primitive parking meter that you start by lighting a fire and tracks the time by burning down.
Koohii Story 2 In the olden days parking lots used to have reserved spaces for where the lord (of the set of houses, shops, whatever) could park his team of horses. nowadays it´s pretty much the same...reserved parking in front for the big bosses´ cars....

Tags: jlpt.n2, grades, kanjifreq751-1000

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