HSK 3.0 Level 3 · People

市 shì “city” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 市 means

  1. city
  2. market
  3. municipality (administrative unit)

How to say 市

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale市shì4th tone, falling

市 in a sentence

  1. 我星期天经常去市中心。

    Wǒ Xīngqītiān jīngcháng qù shì zhōngxīn.

    I often go into the city centre on Sundays.

    Sentence #10184265 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这里附近有超市吗？

    Zhèlǐ fùjìn yǒu chāoshì ma?

    Is there a supermarket nearby?

    Sentence #10109526 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你最喜欢的城市是什么？

    Nǐ zuì xǐhuan de chéngshì shì shénme?

    What’s your favourite city?

    Sentence #8853809 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 市 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 市 (shì) with each of its parts in a different colour
市shìmarket
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 巾napkin · jīn

How to write 市

市 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

市 (shì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 市 (shì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 市

Words with 市

超市chāoshì · supermarket城市chéngshì · city or town市场shìchǎng · marketplace

More words: People & Places

有人yǒurén · someone人们rénmen · people面前miànqián · in front of身边shēnbiān · at one’s side海hǎi · sea

FAQs

市 (shì) means “city” or “market”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it shì: shì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 市 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 市 from the suggestions. Typing shi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
市 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.