市

Alternative forms
Note that the used in Japan and Korea as well as the  uses a vertical dot for the upper component of 亠 which is slightly different from modern Chinese scripts which uses a slanting  dot for the upper component of 亠 in.

Usage notes
This character is not to be confused with visually similar but unrelated  ("type of clothing in ancient China") which has only four strokes and is written with  across the top of.

Glyph origin
Oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions:.

Etymology
Possibly related to 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) city; town
 * 2) market; fair
 * 3) to trade; to do business
 * 4) to buy
 * 5) to sell
 * 6)  market situation; especially the stock market
 * 7)  business situation buy and sell of goods

Compounds

 * : mayor
 * : city hall
 * : mayor
 * : city hall
 * : mayor
 * : city hall
 * : mayor
 * : city hall
 * : mayor
 * : city hall
 * : city hall

Etymology 1
From. Found in the  of 712.

Noun

 * 1) a market, a marketplace
 * 2) a place where a lot of people gather
 * 3)  a town, a city

Suffix

 * 1) city

Usage notes
When compounding, similar to, , , and , makes the accent fall on the  immediately before itself. For example:
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)

Etymology
From.

Han character

 * 1) (only in compounds) market
 * 2) (only in compounds) city