城 (sing4 seng4 | cheng2) : city; town

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城

sing4 seng4

cheng2

[1] city; town
[2] (city) wall; castle
[3] large commercial centre

Jyutping sing4 is literary and standard reading; seng4 is colloquial and variant reading.

Stroke count: 9

Level: 1

Radical: 土 (#32)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

城

Don't confuse with:
域

This word has been viewed 20849 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 5th Aug 2013 14:35

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長城 coeng4 sing4 chang2 cheng2 = The Great Wall of China

城市 sing4 si5 cheng2 shi4 = city

鬼城 gwai2 sing4 gui3 cheng2 = ghost city

城堡 sing4 bou2 cheng2 bao3 = castle

萬里長城 maan6 lei5 coeng4 sing4 wan4 li3 chang2 cheng2 = The Great Wall of China

紫禁城 zi2 gam3 sing4 zi3 jin4 cheng2 = The Forbidden City

檳城 ban1 sing4 bin1 cheng2; bing1 cheng2 = Penang

獅城 si1 sing4 shi1 cheng2 = Lion City

縣城 jyun6 sing4 xian4 cheng2 = county town; county seat, the principal town of a county

城鎮 sing4 zan3 cheng2 zhen4 = cities and towns; urban areas; a town
See all 159 compounds (CantoDict reports 163 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 2 examples containing 城

他本來想在沿海城市工作國
At first he intended to work in a coastal city.

我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺廣城買嗰件衫去洗粵
I took the shirt I bought two weeks ago at the shopping mall to be cleaned.
[Lit. I took two weeks ago at shopping mall buy that shirt go clean]

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Decimal representation of this word: 城
Unicode code for this character: U+57ce (off-site link)

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