Chinese symbol for “market”
市
shì
market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
The closest CC-CEDICT match for market is 市 (shì), defined as: market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “market”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 市场 (市場) | shì chǎng | marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market |
| 推销 (推銷) | tuī xiāo | to market; to sell |
| 集市 | jí shì | market; bazaar; fair |
| 行销 (行銷) | xíng xiāo | to sell; to market; marketing |
| 销售 (銷售) | xiāo shòu | to sell; to market |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 市.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城市 | chéng shì | city; town; measure word: 座 (zuò) |
| 市场 (市場) | shì chǎng | marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market |
| 市长 (市長) | shì zhǎng | mayor |
| 上市 | shàng shì | to hit the market (of a new product); to float (a company on the stock market) |
| 市民 | shì mín | city resident; townspeople |
| 市区 (市區) | shì qū | urban district; downtown |
See also: Japanese symbol for “market”.
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.