- municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重慶, the first level administrative subdivision
- province level city
- also called directly governed city
CEDICT
- (countable) municipality directly under the central government (Classifier: 個/个 m)
- municipality directly under the central government (Classifier: 個/个 m)
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重編國語辭典
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