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Chinese symbol for “bazaar”

市场
shì chǎng
Traditional: 市場
marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market

The closest CC-CEDICT match for bazaar is 市场 (shì chǎng), defined as: marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

市 shì
city, town; market, fair; to trade
radical 50 ⼱ · 5 strokes
场 chǎng
field, open space; market, square; stage
radical 32 ⼟ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “bazaar”

WordPinyinMeaning
百货店 (百貨店)bǎi huò diànbazaar; department store
巴扎bā zhābazaar (loanword)
集市jí shìmarket; bazaar; fair
巴刹 (巴剎)bā shābazaar (loanword); Taiwan pr. [ba1 cha4]
义卖会 (義賣會)yì mài huìbazaar

Related words

Other words that share a character with 市场.

WordPinyinMeaning
城市chéng shìcity; town; measure word: 座 (zuò)
市长 (市長)shì zhǎngmayor
上市shàng shìto hit the market (of a new product); to float (a company on the stock market)
市民shì míncity resident; townspeople
市区 (市區)shì qūurban district; downtown
现场 (現場)xiàn chǎngthe scene (of a crime, accident etc); (on) the spot
机场 (機場)jī chǎngairport; airfield; (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship
广场 (廣場)guǎng chǎngpublic square; plaza

See also: Japanese symbol for “bazaar”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.