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市民

shì mín

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

市民 (shì mín) means "city resident". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 市民 means

1. city resident; townspeople

The characters in 市民

• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)
• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country

Example sentences

• 我是札幌的市民。
  Wǒ shì Zháhuǎng de shìmín.
  I am a citizen of Sapporo.
• 成千上万的士兵和市民死去了。
  Chéngqiān-shàngwàn de shìbīng hé shìmín sǐqù le.
  Thousands upon thousands of soldiers and civilians died.
• 每个阿尔及尼亚的男性市民都需要服兵役。
  Měi gè ā ěr jí ní yà de nánxìng shìmín dōu xūyào fúbīngyì.
  Every male Algerian citizen must do military service.
• 学校的樱花开的烂漫，吸引了大量市民前来观赏。
  Xuéxiào de yīnghuā kāi de lànmàn, xīyǐn le dàliàng shìmín qiánlái guānshǎng.
  The school's lovely cherry blossoms drew a lot of residents to come and admire it.

Words starting with 市民

• 市民社会shì mín shè huìcivil society (law)

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