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集市

jí shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

集市 (jí shì) means "market; bazaar; fair". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 集市 means

1. market; bazaar; fair

The characters in 集市

• 集jíto gather; to collect; collected works
• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)

Example sentences

• 所有人都去哪儿了？有集市吗？
  Suǒyǒurén dōu qù nǎr le? Yǒu jíshì ma?
  Where are all the people going? Is there a fair?
• 我习惯于收集琐碎的物件，像是集市上卖的香膏，小蜡烛与烛台，只要是那种小巧又可爱的东西，我都会很喜欢。
  I tend to collect tiny little objects, like balms sold on the market, little candles and candlesticks. As long as they are tiny and cutesy, I like them.

Words starting with 集市

• 集市贸易jí shì mào yìmarket trade

Words containing 集市

• 辛集市Xīn jí ShìXinji, a county-level city in Shijiazhuang City 石家庄市

Sounds the same

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

• 急事urgent matter
• 吉事auspicious event
• 吉士cheese (loanword); custard powder; (literary) man (laudatory)

Go deeper

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