中央直辖市 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 中央直轄市 zhōngyāngzhíxiáshì ㄓㄨㄥ ㄧㄤ ㄓˊ ㄒㄧㄚˊ ㄕˋ municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重庆, the first level administrative subdivision province level city also called directly governed city Character by character 中(zhōng)middle 央(yāng)center 直(zhí)straight 辖(xiá)govern 市(shì)market Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0