What 市 means
Market or city; the surrounding word decides. Mandarin reads it shì. Japanese reads it ichi for a market, and shi after city names such as 大阪市 (Osaka City). Korean reads it 시 (si).
Where did 市 come from?
It grew from a word for a marketplace. A recognizable ancestor appears in late Western Zhou bronze inscriptions. From Qin–Han through Tang, 市 named the regulated market quarters of Chinese cities, and the sense widened to commercial districts and whole cities.
Who writes 市
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Market.
Citizen or city resident.
City or urban area.
Questions people ask
1Why does 市 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 市
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- shì · shi · ichi · market kanji · city kanji · market in Chinese
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
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HTML
市CSS
\5E02Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
市
HTML hex
市
CSS content
content: "\5E02";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%B8%82
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.