中央直轄市

1. • municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重庆, the first level administrative subdivision
2. • province level city
3. • also called directly governed city

Character by character

• 中(zhōng)middle
• 央(yāng)center
• 直(zhí)straight
• 轄(xiá)govern
• 市(shì)market