Town in Chinese
town · HSK 3
城市
- 城 city
- 市 city
Counted with 座: 一座城市
这个城市很干净。 This city is very clean.
Other ways to say town
More words with 城 or 市
How do you say town in Chinese?
Town in Chinese is 城市 (chéng shì). You can also say 城 (chéng), 镇 (zhèn).
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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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.