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Pinyin: shìEnglish Definition: market; city; Classifiers: 个 Chinese Definition: ①做买卖或做买卖的地方：开市。菜市。市井(街，市场)。市曹。市侩(旧指买卖的中间人、唯利是图的奸商；现泛指贪图私利的人)。
②买：市义。市恩(买好，讨好)。
③人口密集的行政中心或工商业、文化发达的地方：城市。都市。市镇。
④一种行政区划，有中央直辖和省(自治区)辖等：北京市。南京市。
⑤中国人民习惯使用的度量衡单位：市制。市尺。市斤。Total strokes: 5;
Radical: 巾 Character Formation:
- ⿱ Above to below
- 亠 [ tóu ] lid, cover; head
- 巾 [ jīn ] cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
Example Words:
市场 [
shì chǎng ]: marketplace; market (also in abstract)
休市 [
xiū shì ]: to close the market (for a holiday or overnight etc)
市场换技术 [
shì chǎng huàn jì shù ]: market access in return for technology transfer (PRC policy since the 1980s which gives foreign companies access to China's domestic market in exchange for sharing their intellectual property, characterized by the US in the 2019 trade war as "forced technology transfer")
Example Sentences- 我们这个市，下面设10个区。
Our municipality is divided into ten districts.
- 我们改变河道流向以向我们市供水。
We diverted the river to supply water to our city.
- 他们选举他代表他们市去参加代表大会。
They have delegated him to represent their city at the convention.
- 一次，一份报纸刊登了一篇社论，直接指出市议会里有一半人是骗子。
A newspaper once carried an editorial which stated bluntly that half the city council were crooks.
- 这些机会帮助我们建立了与山梨市的相互信任和尊重。
These opportunities have helped us build mutual trust and respect with the city of Yamanashi.
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