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Downtown in Chinese

downtown · HSK 4

市区 shì qū

  1. 市 shì city
  2. 区 qū area

Counted with 个: 一个市区 yí gè shìqū

从机场到市区要一个小时。 It takes an hour to get from the airport to downtown.

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How do you say downtown in Chinese?

Downtown in Chinese is 市区 (shì qū).

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.

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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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