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Note that theMing typeface used in Japan and Korea as well as theKangxi dictionary uses a vertical dot for the upper component of亠 which is slightly different from modern Chinese scripts which uses a slanting丶 dot for the upper component of亠 in市.
市 (Kangxi radical 50,巾+2, 5 strokes,cangjie input卜中月 (YLB),four-corner00227,composition⿱丶帀 or⿱亠巾)
This character is not to be confused with visually similar but unrelated巿 (U+5DFF), which has only four strokes and is written with一 across the top of巾.
| simp. andtrad. | 市 | |
|---|---|---|
| Historical forms of the character市 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan) | Liushutong (compiled inMing) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions:Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*djɯʔ): semantic 兮(“bustling”) + phonetic 之(OC*tjɯ).
Possibly related toProto-Tai*z.ɟɯːꟲ(“to buy”), whenceThaiซื้อ(sʉ́ʉ) (Schuessler, 2007).
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 市 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 時止切 |
| 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 |
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 市 |
| 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; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 市 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11611 |
| Phonetic component | 市 |
| Rime group | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 市 |
| Old Chinese | /*djɯʔ/ |
市
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 市 |
| いち Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi |
FromOld Japanese市(ichi). Found in theKojiki of 712CE.[1]
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 市 |
| し Grade: 2 |
| on'yomi |
When compounding, similar to都(-to),道(-dō),府(-fu),県(-ken) and町(chō), makes the accent fall on the自立拍(jiritsuhaku,“autonomous mora”) immediately before itself. For example:
FromMiddle Chinese市 (MC dzyiX).
