商

Translingual

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

商 (jyutping soeng1, Yale seung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

商 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: あきなう (akinau)

Suffix

商 (hiragana しょう, romaji shō)

1. dealer, merchant

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ ʂaŋ˥˥ ]

Hanzi

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

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

Proper noun

商 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shāng)

1. Shang Dynasty

Verb

商 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shāng)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) to discuss; to consult

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Middle Chinese

Han character

商 (*shiɑng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

商 (thương)