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Kanji Information Sheet for 市 ( PDF version )
Bushu (Radical) Info:
亠 (なべぶた) – lid
巾 (はば) – cloth
亠 (なべぶた) – lid
巾 (はば) – cloth
Henshall Mnemonic: go to city market to buy cloth top hat
Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 2
Frequency: #42 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #42 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 市 [いち]
(n) market; fair [K] [D] [Jisho] - 都市 [とし]
(n) town; city; municipal; urban [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市場 [いちば]
(n) (1) (town) market; (2) (the) marketplace [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
- 市街 [しがい]
(n) urban areas; the streets; town; city [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市場 [しじょう]
(n) (the) market (as a concept) [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 市場調査 [しじょうちょうさ]
market research [K] [D] [Jisho] - 同市 [どうし]
(n) same city [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市政 [しせい]
(n) municipal government [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市中 [しちゅう]
(n) in the city [K] [D] [Jisho] - 見本市 [みほんいち]
(n) trade fair [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市町村 [しちょうそん]
(n) cities, towns and villages; municipalities [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市長 [しちょう]
(n) mayor [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市道 [しどう]
(n) municipal roads [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市内 [しない]
(n) (within a) city [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市販 [しはん]
(n) marketing [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市部 [しぶ]
(n) urban areas [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市民権 [しみんけん]
(n) citizenship [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市民社会 [しみんしゃかい]
civil society [K] [D] [Jisho] - ホーチミン市 [ホーチミンし]
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市役所 [しやくしょ]
(n) municipal office; council; city hall [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市立 [しりつ]
(n) municipal [K] [D] [Jisho] - 魚市場 [うおいちば]
(n) fish market [K] [D] [Jisho] - 卸売市場 [おろしうりしじょう]
wholesale market [K] [D] [Jisho] - 都市ガス [としガス]
(n) town gas [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市営 [しえい]
(n) municipal management [K] [D] [Jisho] - 都市計画 [としけいかく]
town planning [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市会 [しかい]
(n) city council [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市外 [しがい]
(n) outside the city area; suburbs [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市街地 [しがいち]
(n) town areas [K] [D] [Jisho] - 市議 [しぎ]
(n) (abbr) city councillor; city assemblyman [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.