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市 — market; city; municipality

market; city; municipality; to trade; to buy and sell goods

Pinyin
shì
Strokes
5
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 市: 5 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

市 — 5 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 市 in the HSK syllabus: 14

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 超市chāoshìsupermarketHSK 1
  2. 城市chéngshìcity; townHSK 3
  3. 市shìmarket; city; municipalityHSK 3
  4. 市场shìchǎngmarketplace; market; bazaar; marketHSK 4
  5. 市区shìqūurban district; downtown; city centerHSK 4
  6. 市民shìmíncity resident; townspeopleHSK 5
  7. 夜市yèshìnight marketHSK 5
  8. 都市dūshìcity; metropolisHSK 6
  9. 股市gǔshìstock marketHSK 6
  10. 上市shàngshìto hit the market; to floatHSK 6
  11. 集市jíshìmarket; bazaar; fairHSK 7–9
  12. 市场经济shìchǎng jīngjìmarket economyHSK 7–9
  13. 市值shìzhímarket capitalization; market valueHSK 7–9
  14. 直辖市zhíxiáshìmunicipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重慶|重庆, the first level administrative subdivisionHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.