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市
Meaning
- market
- city
- municipality (administrative unit)
Example sentence
我们正在去市里。
We're going downtown.
The character 市
市 was a market before it was a city: 市场 the marketplace, 超市 the supermarket, 城市 the city, 市长 the mayor. A Chinese 市 is an administrative unit rather than simply a built-up area.