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Open the tool →奔走如市 (bēn zǒu rú shì) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to describe a scene of great hustle and bustle”.
奔走如市 is pronounced bēn zǒu rú shì in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 奔走如市 means “Running about like a market; Bustling like a marketplace”. It is used to mean “to describe a scene of great hustle and bustle”.
走:跑。市:集市。形容为某种目的而奔忙、活动的人很多。