市 (si5 | shi4) : market; marketplace

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市

si5

shi4

[1] [n] market; marketplace; place for battering goods; fair [2] [n] city; town [3] [v] buy; sell; trade [4] a Chinese family name

Stroke count: 5

Level: 3

Radical: 巾 (#50)

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

市

Don't confuse with:
巿帀币

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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市長 si5 zoeng2 shi4 zhang3 = mayor

市場 si5 coeng4 shi4 chang3 = a market; a marketplace; a fair; a bazaar.

城市 sing4 si5 cheng2 shi4 = city

市政 si5 zing3 shi4 zheng4 = municipal administration

街市 gaai1 si5 jie1 shi4 = street market, wet market

行街市 haang4 gaai1 si5 = to go street market buy food 粵

市民 si5 man4 shi4 min2 = townspeople; citizens

市區 si5 keoi1 shi4 qu1 = urban district; a municipal district; the downtown area.

股市 gu2 si5 gu3 shi4 = the stock market

股票市場 gu2 piu3 si5 coeng4 gu3 piao4 shi4 chang2 = the stock market; stock exchange
See all 156 compounds (CantoDict reports 172 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 2 examples containing 市

阿媽去咗超級市場買嘢。粵
Mum has gone shopping in a supermarket.

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

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 市
Unicode code for this character: U+5E02 (off-site link)

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