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chéng

HSK 3 · word 1336 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

zuò or 道 dào or 个

Example sentence

我进城去。

wǒ jìn chéng qù

I'm going downtown.

The character 城

is , earth, beside : 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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