市 (shì)
City; market
How 市 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 亠 — lid
- Traditional
- 市
- Simplified
- 市 (unchanged)
Components
- 亠 lid
- 巾 turban/scarf
Common words using 市
- 城市 chéngshì
- city; town; CL:座[zuo4]
- 市區 shìqū
- urban district; downtown; city center
- 市場 shìchǎng
- marketplace; market (also in abstract)
- 市民 shìmín
- city resident
- 超市 chāoshì
- supermarket (abbr.); CL:家[jia1]
- 上市 shàngshì
- to hit the market (of a new product); to float (a company on the stock market)
- 上海市 shànghǎishì
- Shanghai municipality in southeast China, abbr. 滬|沪
- 佛山市 fóshānshì
- Foshan prefecture level city in Guangdong 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 sheng3]
- 利市 lìshì
- "lai see" (lucky money)
- 副市長 fùshìzhǎng
- deputy mayor
- 北京市 běijīngshì
- Beijing; capital of People's Republic of China; one of the four municipalities 直轄市|直辖市[zhi2 xia2 shi4]
- 南京市 nánjīngshì
- Nanjing subprovincial city on the Changjiang, capital of Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏; capital of China at different historical periods
市 in a sentence
台北市的交通很方便。
Táiběi Shì de jiāotōng hěn fāngbiàn.
“Transportation in Taipei City is very convenient.”
How common is 市?
市 is the 254th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 60.9% of all running text.
Characters that appear with 市
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