直辖市
Traditional form:
直轄市
Pinyin (reading):
zhíxiáshì
Definitions:
- municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重慶／重庆, the first level administrative subdivision
- province level city
- also called directly governed city
Characters:
- 直 - straight, vertical; candid, direct, frank
- 辖 - to control, to have jurisdiction; the linchpin of a wheel
- 市 - city, town; market, fair; to trade
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