商
shāng HSK1

commerce, business

商 shāng
commerce noun
commerce; business; trade
merchant noun
a person engaged in trade; dealer; businessman

他的父亲是丝绸商。

tā de fù​qīn shì sī​chóu shāng.

His father was a silk merchant.

不快乐的妻子是酒商最好的朋友。

bù kuài​lè de qī​zi shì jiǔ shāng zuì​hǎo de péng​you.

An unhappy wife is a wine merchant's best friend.

to discuss verb
to discuss; to consult; to exchange ideas or opinions
quotient noun
the result obtained by dividing one quantity by another
Shang dynasty
the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC)
shang
the second note of the pentatonic scale, equivalent to "re" in solfège
surname
a Chinese surname
autumnal
(literary) of or relating to autumn
star name
ancient name for the constellation Heart (Xīn), one of the twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations; Antares
phonology
the second class of initials in ancient Chinese phonology

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Frequency
Character
Written text
402nd most common 544.7 per million
Movie subtitles
832nd most common 147.9 per million appears in 50% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
21.9 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
257.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5546

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)