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市: market, city

Also: town

JLPT N35 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met

亠 carries the meaning · 巾 carries meaning and sound

5 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

シshi · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 横浜市よこはましYokohama city
  • 都市としcity, urban area
  • 市内しない(within a) city
  • 市外しがいoutside the city
  • 市民しみんcitizen
  • 市長しちょうmayor
  • 市役所しやくしょcity hall
  • 市場しじょう/いちばmarket (business) / market place

いちichi · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 市いちmarket place
  • 競り市せりいちauction market

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)兮 bustling (meaning) + 之 (sound)

Oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions: Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 兮 (“bustling”) + phonetic 之.

Source: Wiktionary, 市 (rev. 93778837), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Point (亠) + cloth (巾). Originally referred to the "cloth" banners used to mark the location of a bustling "market" within a town.”
From the 巾 cloth story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亠

Also built on lid (亠)

All 24
巾

Also built on cloth (巾)

All 15

市 gives its sound to

The family reading is シ (shi). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read シ

63 kanji share this on'yomiAll 63

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
市 market · 亠
vs布 linen · 父
市 has 亠 where 布 has 父.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shì

Same form: 市 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
市 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
市 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shì most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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