市場|しじょうshijou[1]atamadaka (head-high)

Common
Definitions
  1. nounmarket (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange
    Several more companies are moving to enter the lucrative pet food market of the country.
  2. noun(street) marketusu. read いちば
Synonyms & antonyms
  • 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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Japanese definitions
  1. ある物品ぶっぴんの売買ばいばいのために、売り手うりてと買い手かいての方法ほうほうに対たいして提供ていきょうされる場所ばしょ。
  2. 財貨ざいかやサービスが取引とりひきされることを抽象的ちゅうしょうてきに捉とらえた概念がいねん。
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