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Chinese
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commerce; consult
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deal in; trade in; to peddle deal in; trade in; to peddle; to sell |
| trad. (商販)
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商
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販
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| simp. (商贩)
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商
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贩
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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商
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| Reading #
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3/3
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shāng
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ syang ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*s-taŋ/
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| English
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estimate; business; trader
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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商
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販
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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11097
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2973
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Phonetic
component
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商
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反
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Rime
group
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陽
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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商
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販
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Old
Chinese
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/*hljaŋ/
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/*pans/
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Noun
商販
- (countable) small retailer; peddler (Classifier: 名 m; 位 m; 個／个 m)
Verb
商販
- (Classical, intransitive) to do business; to trade
悅商販而不務本貨，則民偷處而不事積聚。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
悦商贩而不务本货，则民偷处而不事积聚。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: Guanzi, 5th century BCE to 220 CE
- Yuè shāngfàn ér bù wù běnhuò, zé mín tōuchù ér bù shì jījù.
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世祖時，其國人商販京師，自云能鑄石為五色瑠璃，於是採礦山中，於京師鑄之。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
世祖时，其国人商贩京师，自云能铸石为五色瑠璃，于是采矿山中，于京师铸之。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]- From: Wei Shou, Book of Wei, 551 – 554 CE
- Shìzǔ shí, qí guó rén shāngfàn jīngshī, zì yún néng zhù shí wèi wǔsè liúlí, yúshì cǎikuàng shān zhōng, yú jīngshī zhù zhī.
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Synonyms
- 交易 (jiāoyì)
- 做生意 (zuò shēngyi)
- 做生理 (Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka)
- 做買賣 / 做买卖 (zuò mǎimài)
- 吃生意飯 / 吃生意饭 (7chiq 1san-i-ve) (Wu)
- 吃生意飯 / 吃生意饭 (7chiq 1san-i-ve) (Shanghainese)
- 從商 / 从商 (cóngshāng)
- 營商 / 营商 (yíngshāng)
- 經商 / 经商 (jīngshāng)
- 行商 (xíngshāng)