Definitions
Etymology
Origin unclear. 止 represents the sound.
About
Originally an ideogram, 市 combines the top element 亠 with the radical 巾 (jīn, cloth or towel), historically depicting a designated trading area. Its core meaning was a marketplace or bazaar, a specific location for buying and selling goods. As settlements grew into complex urban centers around these commercial hubs, the character's definition expanded to represent a city, municipality, or large urban administrative division, while still retaining its economic sense of a market.
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这是一个大城市。
市场有很多人。
我在市中心工作。
这个城市很漂亮。
我们去超市买东西。
市政府公布了新政策。
市场经济在中国发展很快。
城市规划需要考虑环境保护。