The Muromachi shogunate was a feudal government of Japan.
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In Chinese 町 is rare. Read tǐng for the field-ridge sense and for Japanese place names like 室町. A separate reading dīng is used in some Chinese place names. In Japanese the same character is the very common word for 'town' or 'city block'.
田 on the left is the indexing field radical, a square divided into four plots. It marks 町 as a land-and-boundary word: the ridge dividing two paddies. Sister characters 男, 界, 略 sit in the cultivated-land family.
丁 on the right supplies the sound, the source of both readings tǐng and dīng. Same phonetic powers 顶 top, 钉 nail, 厅 hall. The nail shape carries no meaning here.
