市 (shì): meaning and stroke order
市 (shì) means market, city, municipality (administrative unit).
市
- Simplified
- 市
- Traditional
- 市 (same form)
- Pinyin
- shì
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Stroke order of 市
市
- shì market; city
- 5 strokes
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Meaning of 市
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shì
- market
- city
- municipality (administrative unit)
- (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
Radical and structure
- 市
- Radical 巾 (Kangxi radical 50) · 5 strokes · 亠 on top, 巾 below
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Words with 市
- 上市 shàng shì to hit the market (of a new product); to float (a company on the stock market)
- 开市 kāi shì (of a store, stock market etc) to open for trading; to make the first transaction of the day
- 城市 chéng shì city; town; CL:座[zuo4]
- 市场 shì chǎng marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market
- 早市 zǎo shì morning market
- 市政府 shì zhèng fǔ city hall; city government
- 超市 chāo shì supermarket (abbr. for 超級市場|超级市场[chao1 ji2 shi4 chang3]); CL:家[jia1]
- 市中心 shì zhōng xīn city center; downtown
市 in our stories
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一百年后，他的孙女找到市档案馆，问能不能查一查当年的资料。
yìbǎi nián hòu tā de sūnnǚ zhǎodào shì dàng'ànguǎn wèn néng bù néng chá yì chá dāngnián de zīliào
A hundred years later his granddaughter came to the city archives and asked whether the old records could be checked.
From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 市
- The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).