Illustration: From a hillside overlook, a family looks across a compact Japanese city extending through a river basin. Apartment blocks and shopping streets cluster around a railway station, while houses, a school ground, a municipal office, and a public park fill connected neighborhoods beyond.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

市し

shi

city

It also follows city names, as in 千葉市. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. この市しの人口じんこうは減へった。

    The population of this city has decreased.

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  2. 市しの中央ちゅうおうに公園こうえんがある。

    There is a park in the middle of the city.

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  3. 図書館としょかんは市しの中央ちゅうおうにある。

    The library is in the middle of the city.

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Kanji in 市

  • 市market; cityOnシKunいち

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