市
shì HSK2

market

市 shì
city noun
an urban settlement or a municipality as an administrative unit

上海是中国人口最多的市之一。

Shàng​hǎi shì Zhōng​guó rén​kǒu zuì​duō de shì zhī yī.

Shanghai is one of the most populous cities in China.

market punctuation
a place or gathering for buying and selling goods

这个偏远的小镇每逢周日都会赶市。

zhè gè piān​yuǎn de xiǎo​zhèn měi féng Zhōu​rì dōu huì gǎn shì.

This remote town holds a market every Sunday.

to trade verb
to buy, sell, or exchange goods (literary usage)

他在此地市得一匹好马。

tā zài cǐ dì shì dé yī pǐ hǎo mǎ.

He purchased a fine horse at the market here.

Frequency
Character
Written text
254th most common 876.1 per million
Movie subtitles
623rd most common 223.2 per million appears in 57% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
39.9 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
592.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+5E02

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)