市
부수: 巾
획수: 5획
市 means market and city.
市 = 止 + 丂
X = unresolved
There are few suggested interpretations of how 止 + 丂 contribute to 市 without a clear consensus.
• 止 depicts a foot with toes pointed upwards.
• 丂 depicts an axe handle.
Some suggest that these components are no longer recognisable in 市 and it is unclear how 市 came to mean ‘place for the buying and selling of goods’.
Others have suggested that 市 consists of 兮 meaning ‘flat’ or ‘balanced’. 丂 originally referred to waterweed twisting up to the surface and then spreading flat over the surface. It may seem imaginative, but they suggest this “levelling of opposed interests” helps give an extended meaning of ‘stop/stay at a place and exchange items of equal value’.
Some scholars have even suggested that 市 simply depicts a large sign showing where the market is held.
Evolution:
市 = market ➔ city
Mnemonic
Since the connection between the components is unclear, brute force memorisation is recommended.
Alternatively, despite this being a false breakdown of the character, you can interpret 市 as 巾 (cloth) + 亠 (top hat). Imagine the city mayor strutting about in his nice new clothes 巾 and a top hat 亠 which he bought from the market 市.
Vocab
| 市場 | 시장 | a market |
| 市中 | 시중 | a market |
| 市價 | 시가 | market value |
| 市況 | 시황 | market conditions |
| 市販 | 시판 | market sale |
| 夜市場 | 야시장 | night market |
| 市場性 | 시장성 | marketability |
| 暗市場 | 암시장 | the black market |
| 金融市場 | 금융 시장 | the financial market |
| 都市 | 도시 | city |
| 市民 | 시민 | citizens |
| 市長 | 시장 | a mayor |
| 市內 | 시내 | city downtown |
| 市街 | 시가 | city street |
| 市外 | 시외 | outer city |
| 市廳 | 시청 | city hall |
| 安東市 | 안동시 | Andong City |
| 都市化 | 도시화 | urbanisation |
| 市有地 | 시유지 | city-owned land |
| 市議會 | 시의회 | city council |
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Bibliography
Affiliate links help support uK.
— Daum 사전, [s.v. 市].
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 156]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 市].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 144]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.