市郊
shì jiāo
Pinyin

Definition

市郊
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shì jiāo
  1. outer city
  2. suburb

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

城市
chéng shì
  1. 1 city
  2. 2 town
  3. 3 classifier: 座 zuò
市区
shì qū
  1. 1 urban district
  2. 2 downtown
  3. 3 city center
市场
shì chǎng
  1. 1 marketplace
  2. 2 market (also in abstract)
市民
shì mín
  1. 1 city resident
超市
chāo shì
  1. 1 supermarket
  2. 2 abbr. for 超級市場|超级市场
  3. 3 classifier: 家 jiā

Idioms (4)

偶语弃市
ǒu yǔ qì shì
  1. 1 chance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom)
招摇过市
zhāo yáo guò shì
  1. 1 to parade oneself ostentatiously about town (idiom)
绑赴市曹
bǎng fù shì cáo
  1. 1 to bind up and take to the market (idiom); to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
门庭若市
mén tíng ruò shì
  1. 1 front yard as busy as a marketplace (idiom)
  2. 2 a place with many visitors

Sample Sentences

我的大学在市郊，周末回家要坐两个多小时的班车 。一般我都是抱着书包，带着耳机，半打着瞌睡来消磨这段时光。不过从那天开始，这一切都改变了。
wǒ de dàxué zài shìjiāo ，zhōumò huíjiā yào zuò liǎng ge duō xiǎoshí de bānchē 。yībān wǒ dōushì bào zhe shūbāo ，dài zhe ěrjī ，bàn dǎ zhe kēshuì lái xiāomó zhè duàn shíguāng 。bùguò cóng nà tiān kāishǐ ，zhè yīqiè dōu gǎibiàn le 。
My university is in the suburbs and so when I go home on the weekends I need to take a bus for 2 hours. I usually hold my bag, put on my headphones and doze off to kill the time. But on this day, everything changed.
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