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City in Chinese

city · HSK 3

市 shì

我们市新开了一家博物馆。 A new museum just opened in our city.

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How do you say city in Chinese?

City in Chinese is 市 (shì). You can also say 城市 (chéng shì), 城 (chéng), 都市 (dū shì).

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?

The CC-CEDICT 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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