市し場じょう

also: いちば

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Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 2,000

Meanings

noun

market; financial or commercial market; exchange

Only with reading しじょう

Read しじょう. Refers to a market as an economic sphere, industry, demand area, stock market, or organized exchange, rather than simply a row of stalls.

日本にほんの自じ動どう車しゃ市し場じょうは大おおきい。
Japan's automobile market is large.
株かぶ式しき市し場じょうは朝あさ九く時じに開ひらく。
The stock market opens at nine in the morning.

noun

street market; marketplace

Only with reading いちば

Usually read いちば. Refers to a concrete place where food, goods, or stalls are gathered, such as a local market or street market.

Usage patterns

〈場ば所しょ〉市し場じょうに参さん入にゅうするto enter a market
新あたらしい企き業ぎょうがアジアの市し場じょうに参さん入にゅうした。
A new company entered the Asian market.
市し場じょうを独どく占せんするto monopolize a market
その会かい社しゃは国こく内ない市し場じょうを独どく占せんしている。
That company monopolizes the domestic market.
市し場じょうが拡かく大だいするfor a market to expand
電でん気き自じ動どう車しゃの市し場じょうが急きゅう速そくに拡かく大だいしている。
The market for electric cars is rapidly expanding.
〈物もの〉が市し場じょうに出でるfor a product to come onto the market
新しん型がたのスマートフォンが来らい月げつ市し場じょうに出でる。
The new smartphone will come onto the market next month.
市いち場ばで〈物もの〉を買かうto buy something at a (street) market
毎まい朝あさ、市いち場ばで新しん鮮せんな魚さかなを買かう。
I buy fresh fish at the market every morning.

Kanji

市market, city, town
場location, place

Related words

マーケットN3
市場 is the standard word for a market in formal business, finance, and news writing, while マーケット is a loanword often used more casually or for consumer-facing market segments.
取とり引ひき所じょ sense 1
市場 refers to the broader economic market or trading activity itself, while 取引所 is the specific institution or physical place, such as a stock exchange, where that trading happens.
市いちN3sense 2
市場 is the everyday word for a marketplace where goods are sold, while 市 is an older or event-like term for a market or fair, usually seen in compounds and place names.
販はん路ろ
市場 is the general term for a market, while 販路 specifically means the sales route or outlet through which a particular product reaches customers.
市し中ちゅう
市場 specifically means 'the market' as an economic system, while 市中 more loosely means 'in the general public/market' as a location or sphere.

Don't confuse with

市いち場ばN3
市場 written いちば means a physical marketplace where people buy and sell goods, while the same kanji read しじょう refers to an abstract or financial market like the stock market.
至し上じょう
市場 (market) shares the same pronunciation しじょう with 至上 (supreme) but is a completely unrelated economic term.

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先さき物もの市し場じょう
futures market; forward market
共きょう同どう市し場じょう
common market
割わり引びき市し場じょう
discount market
労ろう働どう市し場じょう
labor market; labour market
単たん一いつ市し場じょう
single market

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Written forms

市場
- しじょう
  High-priority form and reading. Used especially for economic, commercial, financial, stock-market, and exchange-related meanings.
- いちば
  Same kanji with the reading いちば is used for a physical market or street market; the sense notes that this meaning is usually read いちば.

Etymology

A kanji compound of 市, associated with markets or cities, and 場, meaning place. The reading しじょう is the Sino-Japanese reading used for abstract or economic markets, while いちば is the common reading for a physical market.