Citizen in Chinese
citizen · HSK 5
市民
- 市 city
- 民 the people
很多市民周末喜欢去公园散步。 Many city residents like to take walks in the park on weekends.
Other ways to say citizen
More words with 市 or 民
How do you say citizen in Chinese?
Citizen in Chinese is 市民 (shì mín). You can also say 公民 (gōng mín).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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