商

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.3 Noun 5.4 Proper noun 5.5 Verb 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

商 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜金月口 (YCBR), four-corner 0022₇)

1. commerce, business, trade
2. second note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or re
3. Shang Dynasty

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 194, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3803
• Dae Jaweon: page 415, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 288, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5546

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

商 (Yale seung1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

商 (grade 3 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: あきなう (akinau)

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[edit] Korean

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商 (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ ʂaŋ˥˥ ]

[edit] Hanzi

商 (pinyin shāng (shang1), Wade-Giles shang¹)

[edit] Noun

商 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shāng)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) trade; commerce
2. (Beginning Mandarin) businessman; dealer
3. (Beginning Mandarin) quotient (math)

   6除2的商是3

   the quotient of 6 divided by 2 is 3

4. (archaic) second note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or re

[edit] Proper noun

商 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shāng)

1. Shang Dynasty

[edit] Verb

商 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shāng)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) to discuss; to consult

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[edit] Middle Chinese

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商 (*shiɑng)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

商 (thương)