市内
See also: 市內
Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 市内 – see 市內 (“within the confines of a town; in town; in the city”). (This term, 市内, is the simplified form of 市內.) |
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Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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市 | 内 |
し Grade: 2 |
ない Grade: 2 |
on’yomi |
Etymology
From Middle Chinese compound 市內 (d͡ʑɨX nuʌiH, literally “city, town + inside, interior”). Compare modern Mandarin 市內 reading shìnèi, Cantonese si5 noi6.
Usage notes
Sometimes glossed in English as adjectives local or intracity. However, it is important to note that the Japanese term is a noun, not an adjective. When used to modify another noun, 市内 either takes the possessive partcile の (no) as in 市内の学校 (shinai no gakkō, “intracity schools, the schools in a city”), or it is prefixed directly in a compound, as in 市内電車 (shinai densha, “tram, streetcar”, literally “municipal or intracity train”).
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