Chinese symbol for “towns”
城邑
chéng yì
(literary) towns; cities
The closest CC-CEDICT match for towns is 城邑 (chéng yì), defined as: (literary) towns; cities.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 城邑.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城市 | chéng shì | city; town; measure word: 座 (zuò) |
| 城镇 (城鎮) | chéng zhèn | town; cities and towns |
| 城乡 (城鄉) | chéng xiāng | city and countryside |
| 城堡 | chéng bǎo | castle; rook (chess piece) |
| 城区 (城區) | chéng qū | city district; urban area |
| 县城 (縣城) | xiàn chéng | county seat; county town |
| 采邑 | cài yì | fief |
| 封邑 | fēng yì | grant of territory by an emperor or monarch (old) |
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.