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Meaning of 市
Pinyin
shì
Radical
巾
Strokes
5
Definition
market / city
Usage
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市 [shì]
名词
1. 做买卖或做买卖的地方：开市。菜市。市井（街，市场）。市曹。市侩（旧指买卖的中间人、唯利是图的奸商；现泛指贪图私利的人）。
Meaning: A place for buying and selling: to open a market. Vegetable market. Market street. Merchant (historically referred to as a middleman in trade, implying greed; now generally refers to those seeking personal gain).
2. 买：市义。市恩（买好，讨好）。
Meaning: To buy: buying obligations. Buying favor (to please someone through gifts).
3. 人口密集的行政中心或工商业、文化发达的地方：城市。都市。市镇。
Meaning: An administrative center with a dense population, or a place with developed commerce and culture: city. Capital city. Town.
4. 一种行政区划，有中央直辖和省（自治区）辖等： 北京市。南京市。
Meaning: A type of administrative division, which may be directly administered by the central government or governed by provinces (or autonomous regions): Beijing City. Nanjing City.
5. 中国人民习惯使用的度量衡单位：市制。市尺。市斤。
Meaning: A unit of measurement commonly used in China: Chinese metric system. Chinese foot. Chinese pound.
动词
1. 交易；商品买卖： 市易。市官（管理买卖市集的官吏）。
Meaning: To trade; to buy and sell goods: market transactions. Market official (an official managing trade).
2. 购买：市骏（购买骏马）；市沽（买酒）；市药。
Meaning: To buy: to purchase fine horses; to buy wine; to buy medicine.
3. 卖：市酒（卖酒）；市食（市中售卖的食物）。
Meaning: To sell: to sell wine; food sold in the market.
4. 引起，激起：市怨。
Meaning: To spark or provoke: to sow resentment.
5. 求取：市利（牟取利益）；市爱（求取别人怜爱）。
Meaning: To seek: to seek profit; to seek affection from others.
6. 谄媚，哄骗，引诱：市宠；市欢。
Meaning: To flatter, deceive, or entice: to curry favor; to seek joy.
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Kuitun city or Küytun shehiri in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Zhalantun county level city, Mongolian Zalan-ail xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia
Lichuan county level city in Enshi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州[En1 shi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hubei
municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重慶|重庆, the first level administrative subdivision / province level city / also called directly governed city
Shijiazhuang prefecture level city and capital of Hebei Province 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3] in north China
Enshi prefecture-level city in Hubei, capital of Enshi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州
Panzhihua prefecture level city in south Sichuan, bordering Yunnan, famous for steel production and pollution
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Input Method for 市
Pinyin
shi4
Wubi
ymhj
Cangjie
ylb
Zhengma
sli
Four Corner
00227
Unicode
U+5e02
Stroke Number Category
HSK Level Category