shì

Traditional: 市

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Translation

market, city (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 市

Examples

kǒu

This city has a large population.

chāo

We are going to the supermarket to buy things.

There is a lot of fruit at the market.

zuòkǒu

This city has a large population.

yuán

There is a big park in the city centre.

市 (shì) means market or city; with 城 it forms 城市 (chéngshì) and with 超 it forms 超市 (chāoshì), supermarket.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 市.

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This word is part of lesson 106.