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城

chéng

HSK 3 · word 1336 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

座 zuò or 道 dào or 个 gè

Example sentence

我进城去。

wǒ jìn chéng qù

I'm going downtown.

The character 城

城 is 土, earth, beside 成: a rammed-earth wall, and then the place inside it. 城市 the city, 长城 the Great Wall, 城里 in town — the wall and the city are the same word.

Words containing 城

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