Department store in Chinese
department store · HSK 2
商场
- 商 commerce
- 场 place
Counted with 家: 一家商场
周末我们去商场买衣服吧。 Let's go to the mall to buy clothes this weekend.
Other ways to say department store
More words with 商 or 场
How do you say department store in Chinese?
Department store in Chinese is 商场 (shāng chǎng). You can also say 百货 (bǎi huò).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.