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街市

jiē shì

2-character word

What 街市 means

1. downtown area
2. commercial district
3. (chiefly Cantonese) wet market, i.e. a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish and vegetables etc

The characters in 街市

• 街jiēstreet
• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)

Example sentences

• 他在街市卖鱼卖了许多年了，这些年来每逢星期二都会在街市见到他。
  Tā zài jiē shì mài yú mài le xǔduō nián le, zhèxiē niánlái měiféng Xīngqī'èr dōu huì zài jiē shì jiàndào tā.
  For years he has been at the market every Tuesday morning with his fish stall.

Sounds the same

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

• 揭示to reveal; to elucidate; to set forth; to articulate; to announce publicly; to promulgate