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市井

shì jǐng

2-character word

What 市井 means

1. marketplace
2. town
3. the street (urban milieu)
4. the haunts of the common people

The characters in 市井

• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)
• 井jǐnga well; neat; orderly

Words starting with 市井

• 市井小民shì jǐng xiǎo mínordinary people; the hoi polloi; commoner

Sounds the same

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

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