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.)
Notes:

Japanese
Kanji in this term
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.

Pronunciation

Noun

市内 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 市內, hiragana しない, rōmaji shinai)

  1. the interior of a city
    市内 (しない)に住 (す)んでいる。
    Shinai ni sunde iru.
    I live in the interior of the city → I live in the city.

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”).

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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