Chinese symbol for “philistine”
市侩
shì kuài
Traditional: 市儈
unscrupulous businessperson; profiteer; philistine
The closest CC-CEDICT match for philistine is 市侩 (shì kuài), defined as: unscrupulous businessperson; profiteer; philistine.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 市侩.
| 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 |
| 牙侩 (牙儈) | yá kuài | broker |
See also: Japanese symbol for “philistine”.
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.