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

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

Translingual

Stroke order

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, 巾+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 .

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

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


Note:
  • ci5 - vernacular;
  • si5 - literary.
Note:
  • chhī/chhǐ - vernacular;
  • sī/sǐ - literary.
Note:
    • Xiang
      • (Changsha)
        • Wiktionary: shr5 / shr4
        • Sinological IPA (key) (old-style): /ʂʐ̩²¹/, /ʂʐ̩⁴⁵/
        • Sinological IPA (key) (new-style): /sz̩²¹/, /sz̩⁴⁵/
    Note:
    • shr5 - vernacular;
    • shr4 - literary.

      Rime
      Character
      Reading # 1/1
      Initial () (25)
      Final () (19)
      Tone (調) Rising (X)
      Openness (開合) Open
      Division () III
      Fanqie
      Baxter dzyiX
      Reconstructions
      Zhengzhang
      Shangfang
      /d͡ʑɨX/
      Pan
      Wuyun
      /d͡ʑɨX/
      Shao
      Rongfen
      /d͡ʑieX/
      Edwin
      Pulleyblank
      /d͡ʑɨX/
      Li
      Rong
      /ʑiəX/
      Wang
      Li
      /ʑĭəX/
      Bernhard
      Karlgren
      /ʑiX/
      Expected
      Mandarin
      Reflex
      shì
      Expected
      Cantonese
      Reflex
      si6
      BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
      Character
      Reading # 1/1
      Modern
      Beijing
      (Pinyin)
      shì
      Middle
      Chinese
      ‹ dzyiX ›
      Old
      Chinese
      /*C.[d]əʔ/
      English market (n.)

      Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

      * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
      * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
      * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
      * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

      * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
      Zhengzhang system (2003)
      Character
      Reading # 1/1
      No. 11611
      Phonetic
      component
      Rime
      group
      Rime
      subdivision
      0
      Corresponding
      MC rime
      Old
      Chinese
      /*djɯʔ/

      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)[1], 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.

      Japanese

      Kanji

      (Second grade kyōiku kanji)

      Readings

      • Go-on: (ji)
      • Kan-on: (shi, Jōyō)
      • Kun: いち (ichi, , Jōyō)

      Compounds

      Etymology 1

      Kanji in this term
      いち
      Grade: 2
      kun'yomi

      From Old Japanese (ichi). Found in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1]

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      (いち) • (ichi

      1. a market, a marketplace
      2. a place where a lot of people gather
      3. (less commonly) a town, a city

      Etymology 2

      Kanji in this term

      Grade: 2
      on'yomi

      Suffix

      () • (-shi

      1. city
      Usage notes

      When compounding, similar to (-to), (-dō), (-fu), (-ken) and (chō), makes the accent fall on the 自立拍 (jiritsuhaku, autonomous mora) immediately before itself. For example:

      References

      1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
      2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

      Korean

      Etymology

      From Middle Chinese (MC dzyiX).

      Pronunciation

      • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ɕʰi(ː)]
      • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
        • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

      Hanja

      (eumhun 저자 (jeoja si))

      1. hanja form? of (market)
      2. hanja form? of (city; town)

      Compounds

      Derived terms

      References

      • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [3]

      Vietnamese

      Han character

      : Hán Nôm readings: thị

      1. (only in compounds) market
      2. (only in compounds) city, town

      Compounds