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市区

shì qū

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 市區

市区 (shì qū) means "urban district; downtown; city center". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 市区 means

1. urban district
2. downtown
3. city center

The characters in 市区

• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)
• 区qūarea; region; district

Example sentences

• 载我们到市区。
  Zài wǒmen dào shìqū.
  Give us a ride downtown.
• 你在不在市区？
  Are you in the city or not?
• 汤姆搭公车去市区。
  Tom takes the bus to the city.
• 我每周末都会去市区。
  Wǒ měi zhōumò dōu huì qù shìqū.
  I go into town every weekend.
• 越来越多的人迁往市区。
  Yuèláiyuè duō de rén qiān wǎng shìqū.
  More and more people are moving to urban areas.
• 到市区的公车站牌在哪里？
  Where is the bus stop for downtown?

Words containing 市区

• 新市区Xīn shì QūXinshi District of Ürümqi, Xinjiang; Sinshih District of Tainan, Taiwan
• 西市区Xī shì QūXishi, a district of Yingkou City 营口市
• 沙市区Shā shì QūShashi, a district of Jingzhou City 荆州市

Sounds the same

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

• 视区field of view

Go deeper

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