市

Note that the Ming typeface used in Japan and Korea as well as the Kangxi dictionary uses a vertical dot for the upper component of 亠 which is slightly different from modern Chinese scripts which uses a slanting 丶 dot for the upper component of 亠 in 市.

市 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜中月 (YLB), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿱丶帀 or ⿱亠巾)

• 伂, 姉, 㧊, 沛, 昁, 肺, 柿, 㸬, 鈰(铈), 鬧/閙(闹)

• KangXi: page 328, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8775
• Dae Jaweon: page 632, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 729, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5E02

This character is not to be confused with visually similar but unrelated 巿 (U+5DFF) ("type of clothing in ancient China") which has only four strokes and is written with 一 across the top of 巾.

Historical forms of the character 市
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djɯʔ) : semantic 兮 (“bustling”) + phonetic 之 (OC *tjɯ).

Possibly related to Proto-Tai *z.ɟɯːꟲ (“to buy”), whence Thai ซื้อ (sʉ́ʉ) (Schuessler, 2007).

市

1. city; town
2. market; fair
3. to trade; to do business
4. to buy
5. to sell
6. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) business situation (buy and sell of goods)

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kun: いち (ichi, 市, Jōyō)

From Old Japanese 市 (ichi). Found in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1]

• (Tokyo) い​ち [íꜜchì] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [it͡ɕi]

市(いち) • (ichi) 

1. a market, a marketplace
2. a place where a lot of people gather
3. (less commonly) a town, a city

市(し) • (-shi) 

1. city

When compounding, similar to 都 (-to), 道 (-dō), 府 (-fu), 県 (-ken) and 町 (chō), makes the accent fall on the 自立拍 (jiritsuhaku, “autonomous mora”) immediately before itself. For example:

• 大阪 (おおさか) + 市 → 大阪市 (おおさかꜜし)
• 佐久 (さく) + 市 → 佐久市 (さくꜜし)
• 仙台 (せꜜんだい) + 市 → 仙台市 (せんだꜜいし; い is a 特殊拍 (tokushuhaku, “special mora”), therefore accentless)
• 五條 (ごꜜじょう) + 市 → 五條市 (ごじょꜜうし; う is a 特殊拍 (tokushuhaku, “special mora”), therefore accentless)
• 日進 (にꜜっしん) + 市 → 日進市 (にっしꜜんし; ん is a 特殊拍 (tokushuhaku, “special mora”), therefore accentless)

From Middle Chinese 市 (MC d͡ʑɨX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɕʰi(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [시(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 市 (eumhun 저자 시 (jeoja si))

1. Hanja form^? of 시 (“market”).
2. Hanja form^? of 시 (“city; town”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

市: Hán Nôm readings: thị

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