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

  • Meaning

    市 means "market, city, trade."

    1. City - An urban area; a municipality.

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

    3. Town - A populated area; a district.

  • 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.
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  • This hospital is run by the city.

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  • Is okayama a big city?

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