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市

shì

HSK 3.0 · 2

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shì · si5 (Jyutping)

  1. market
  2. city
  3. municipality (administrative unit)
  4. (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

市

Meaning
market, fair; city, town; trade
Radical
巾
Strokes
5
Components
⿱亠巾
Cangjie
YLB
Four-corner
0022.7

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