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直辖市

zhí xiá shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 直轄市

直辖市 (zhí xiá shì) means "municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重庆, the first level administrative subdivision; ". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 直辖市 means

1. municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重庆, the first level administrative subdivision
2. province level city
3. also called directly governed city

The characters in 直辖市

• 直zhístraight; to straighten; fair and reasonable
• 辖xiálinchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an axle); (bound form) to govern…
• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)

Words containing 直辖市

• 中央直辖市zhōng yāng zhí xiá shìmunicipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重庆, the first…

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