市 — city, market, town

し市 city

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes business place

U+5E02 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #42 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #412 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

city
market
town

word

し shi On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

市(し) shi city 市(し) 町(ちょう) 村(そん) shichouson cities, towns, and villages 市(し) 内(ない) shinai within the city 市(し) 長(ちょう) shichou mayor 市(し) 立(りつ) shiritsu municipal 同(どう) 市(し) doushi said city 都(と) 市(し) toshi city 大(だい) 都(と) 市(し) daitoshi large city

いち ichi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

市(いち) 場(ば) ichiba market 市(いち) 川(かわ) ichikawa Ichikawa

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亠 lid

きん巾 towel #50

Used as component in (3)

あね姉 elder sister はい肺 lungs かき柿 persimmon

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#50 巾 cloth