商
commerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #293 U+5546
How 商 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
冏 (semantic, “bright”) + 章 (phonetic, zhāng)
components: 亠 丷 冏
How to remember it
salesman · Heisig RSH #451
立 standing up + helmet + animal legs + 口 mouth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 章
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 章 (zhāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 章 sound component | zhāng | chapter, section, writing; seal |
| 障 | zhàng | to separate; shield, barricade |
| 彰 | zhāng | clear, manifest, obvious |
| 漳 | zhāng | a river in Henan province |
| 樟 | zhāng | camphor tree |
| 瘴 | zhàng | malaria; miasma, pestilential vapor |
| 獐 | zhāng | roebuck, hornless river deer |
| 嶂 | zhàng | cliff; the barrier formed by a mountain range |
| 璋 | zhāng | jade plaything; jade ornament |
| 蟑 | zhāng | cockroach |
| 嫜 | zhāng | husband's mother; the lady in the moon |
| 鄣 | zhāng | an ancient city in Jiangsu province |
Words containing 商
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 商水县 | Shāng shuǐ Xiàn | Shangshui, a county in Zhoukou City 周口市[Zhou1 kou3 Shi4], Henan |
| 商业中心 | shāng yè zhōng xīn | business center; commerce center |
| 发行商 | fā xíng shāng | publisher; distributor; issuer |
| 商南县 | Shāng nán Xiàn | Shangnan, a county in Shangluo City 商洛市[Shang1 luo4 Shi4], Shaanxi |
| 商城县 | Shāng chéng Xiàn | Shangcheng, a county in Xinyang City 信陽市|信阳市[Xin4 yang2 Shi4], Henan |
| 中国商用飞机 | Zhōng guó Shāng yòng Fēi jī | COMAC (Chinese aeronautics company) |
| 开发商 | kāi fā shāng | developer (of real estate, a commercial product etc) |
| 有商有量 | yǒu shāng yǒu liàng | to talk things through (idiom); to have an exchange of views |
| 出口商 | chū kǒu shāng | exporter; export business |
| 重商主义 | zhòng shāng zhǔ yì | mercantilism |
| 商务中心区 | shāng wù zhōng xīn qū | central business district (e.g. CBD of Beijing) |
| 商河县 | Shāng hé Xiàn | Shanghe, a county in Jinan City 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4], Shandong |
| 商州区 | Shāng zhōu Qū | Shangzhou, a district of Shangluo City 商洛市[Shang1 luo4 Shi4], Shaanxi |
| 中国工商银行 | Zhōng guó Gōng shāng Yín háng | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) |
| 商人 | shāng rén | merchant; businessman |
| 商水 | Shāng shuǐ | see 商水縣|商水县[Shang1 shui3 Xian4] |
| 商业区 | shāng yè qū | business district; downtown |
| 商学 | shāng xué | business studies; commerce as an academic subject |
| 商家 | shāng jiā | merchant; business; enterprise |
| 中国商飞 | Zhōng guó Shāng fēi | COMAC, Chinese aeronautics company (abbr. for 中國商用飛機|中国商用飞机[Zhong1 guo2 Shang1 yong4 Fei1 … |