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夜市

yè shì

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

夜市 (yè shì) means "night market". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 夜市 means

1. night market

The characters in 夜市

• 夜yènight
• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)

Example sentences

• 台湾的夜市很热闹。
  Taiwan's night market is bustling.
• 柏霖昨天在夜市遇到前女友，尴尬到不行。
  Po-lin ran into his ex at the night market yesterday. It was super awkward.
• 他计画周末去新竹小旅行，顺便逛城隍庙夜市。
  He plans to take a short trip to Hsinchu this weekend and visit the Chenghuang Temple Night Market along the way.

Sounds the same

Read yè shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 夜视night vision

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yè shì correctly.
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