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Kanji Detail for 市 - "city, market, town"

市

  • Meaning

    市 means "city, market, town."

    1. City - An urban area; a municipality.

    2. Market - A place for buying and selling; commerce.

    3. Town - A populated area; a district.

  • Words using 市

    • 同市 どうし Listen same city
    • 市内 しない Listen in the city; within the city
    • 市場 しじょう Listen market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange
    • 市民 しみん Listen citizen (of a country); citizenry; citizen (of a city)
    • 都市 とし Listen town; city; municipal
    • 市長 しちょう Listen mayor
    • 市立 しりつ Listen municipal; city
    • 市町村 しちょうそん Listen cities, towns and villages; municipalities

  • Four-character idioms with 市

    • 市井無頼 しせいぶらい Listen urban villain; street hoodlum
    • 門前成市 もんぜんせいし Listen having a constant stream of visitors; being thronged with callers

  • Tattoo check: 市

    • Verified meaning: city, market, town
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いち, いちさき, いちざき, いちじ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 市

    Given names 市(いち)Listen

    Surnames 市(いちさき)Listen 市(いちざき)Listen 市(いちじ)Listen 市(しょういち)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    market; city; town

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    market, fair; city, town; trade

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    city, town; market, fair; to trade

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A place where buying and selling gathers. Such as morning market, evening market, flower market, cocoon market. Prices rising and falling uniformly based on supply and demand are called 市價. The state of sales is called 市面. Middlemen who profit from transactions are called 市儈. Also, quality goods are called 市貨, meaning displayed in the market for sale; inferior goods are called 行貨, meaning carried around seeking buyers. Like modern goods with or without brand names. | Towns are called 市. Such as 都市, 鎮市. | To buy. (Analects) "He did not eat wine or dried meat bought from the market." 市恩 is like saying "buying favor." The top has one dot, different from the 市 character with a vertical line through the middle. That 市 is pronounced 潑.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shi(シ) シ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ichi(いち) いち

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    巾 (haba・habahen・kimben)

  • Related Keywords

    city market town to trade fair bazaar commerce business exchange shopping municipality district

Sentences including 市

  • This hospital is run by the city.

  • We took a turn around the city in our car.

  • I've never heard of that city.

  • It's the highest building in this city.

  • There are many cities in this country.

  • Is okayama a big city?

  • Tokyo is the largest city in japan.

  • Living in a large city has many advantages.

  • New york is the biggest city in the world.

  • Tokyo is the largest city in japan.

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