市場|しじょうshijou[1]atamadaka (head-high)
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- nounmarket (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange
- noun(street) marketusu. read いちば
- Synonym市場いちばNeutralSame characters, read いちば for physical markets such as 「魚市場」— the actual place of buying and selling; read しじょう it tends toward abstract or large wholesale markets.
- SynonymマーケットNeutralLoanword for market, also covering supermarkets as in 「スーパーマーケット」; common in everyday speech.
- Synonym市いちNeutralA market or fair, often as a suffix as in 「朝市」 or 「蚤の市」; carries a traditional flavor.
Read しじょう for abstract markets like 「株式市場」「市場調査」 and large ones such as 「築地市場」; use いちば for small vegetable or fish markets. Say 「マーケット」 in everyday speech, and 「市」 for traditional fairs like 「朝市」.
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