Today’s #kanji is #村, which is made of its semantic element of 木 and phonetic element of 寸, although 寸 is usually pronounced differently from 村 in the modern Japanese. Can you read 村 then?

Meaning: a village
Reading: ソン、むら

村長（ソンチョウ）: a village mayor
村落（ソンラク）: a village, a hamlet
寒村（カンソン）: a poor village, a deserted village, an isolated hamlet
漁村（ギョソン）: a fishing village
山村（サンソン）: a mountain village (If used as a surname, it is read as やまむら)
農村（ノウソン）: a farming village, an agricultural village

村（むら/ソン）: a village
村役場（むらヤクば）: a village office
隣村（となりむら/リンソン）: the next village, the neighbouring village

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