Chinese symbol for “marketplace”
市场
shì chǎng
Traditional: 市場
marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market
The closest CC-CEDICT match for marketplace 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
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “marketplace”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 市面 | shì miàn | the marketplace (i.e. the world of business and commerce) |
| 市井 | shì jǐng | marketplace; town |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 市场.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城市 | chéng shì | city; town; measure word: 座 (zuò) |
| 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 |
| 现场 (現場) | xiàn chǎng | the scene (of a crime, accident etc); (on) the spot |
| 机场 (機場) | jī chǎng | airport; airfield; (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship |
| 广场 (廣場) | guǎng chǎng | public square; plaza |
See also: Japanese symbol for “marketplace”.
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.