Merchant in Chinese
merchant · HSK 5
商家
- 商 commerce
- 家 home
节日期间很多商家都在打折。 Many businesses offer discounts during the holidays.
Other ways to say merchant
More words with 商 or 家
How do you say merchant in Chinese?
Merchant in Chinese is 商家 (shāng jiā). You can also say 商人 (shāng rén).
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?
Our own 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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