超市
chāo shì
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A supermarket: a large self-service shop for food and household goods. It takes the measure word 家 (一家超市), and a stroll round the shelves is 逛超市 (guàng chāoshì).
Siêu thị: cửa hàng tự chọn lớn, bán thực phẩm và đồ dùng gia đình. Lượng từ là 家 (一家超市); đi dạo, đi mua sắm trong siêu thị là 逛超市 (guàng chāoshì).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “siêu thị” (sieu-thi). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “超市” mean?
A supermarket: a large self-service shop for food and household goods. It takes the measure word 家 (一家超市), and a stroll round the shelves is 逛超市 (guàng chāoshì). Literally: super market
Is “超市” formal or informal?
超市 is generally neutral.