IDENTITY
商shāngtrade; commerce
HSK 2Top 450
CORE MEANING
trade; commerce
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.commerce; businessHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱⿱亠丷冏
- the inner block (old: measuring)
- part of the structure
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
商店shāngdiànstore
商场shāngchǎngmall
商量shāngliangto discuss
Graded examples
我们去商场买东西。Wǒmen qù shāngchǎng mǎi dōngxi.HSK3
We go to the mall to buy things.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Talks (口) about goods — trading, discussing. (Named after the Shang merchants.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #450
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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