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See also: and 巿
U+5E02, 市
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E02

[U+5E01]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5E03]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

Note that the Ming typeface used in Japan and Korea as well as the Kangxi dictionary uses a vertical dot for the upper component of which is slightly different from modern Chinese scripts which uses a slanting dot for the upper component of in .

Han character

(Kangxi radical 50, +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜中月 (YLB), four-corner 00227, composition or )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 328, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8775
  • Dae Jaweon: page 632, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 729, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5E02

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with visually similar but unrelated 巿 (U+5DFF), which has only four strokes and is written with across the top of .

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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djɯʔ): semantic (bustling) + phonetic (OC *tjɯ).

Etymology

Possibly related to Proto-Tai *z.ɟɯːꟲ (to buy), whence Thai ซื้อ (sʉ́ʉ) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • ci5 - vernacular;
  • si5 - literary.

Definitions

  1. city; town
  2. market; fair
  3. to trade; to do business
  4. to buy
  5. to sell
  6. (Cantonese) market situation; especially the stock market
  7. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) business situation (buy and sell of goods)

Compounds

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 211.
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