Kanji1 / 11
商 kanji
make a deal, selling, dealing in, merchant
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ショウ
Kun readings
あきなう
Words with 商
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —士魂商才having a samurai's spirit and a merchant's business sense
- —欠陥商品defective merchandise
- —食料品商grocery store
- —堅い商売sound business
- —商売の株goodwill of a business
- —暇な商売dull business
- —死の商人merchant of death; arms dealer
- —大道商人street vendor; peddler; hawker
- —霊感商法fraudulent business of selling goods by claiming they will bring supernatural benefits
- —金融商品financial products; financial instruments
- —商業生産commercial production
- —商標保護trademark protection
- —商用利用commercial use
- —無印商品unbranded goods
- —悪徳商法unscrupulous business practices; fraudulent business practices; crooked business practices
- —行商稼業the peddling trade
- —原野商法fraudulent sale of worthless land (e.g. by overstating its future value)
- —商人根性mercantile disposition; having a nose for profit; commercialism; mercenary spirit
- —商売往来business handbook (with glossary) of the Edo period
- —商売上手good at business; having a good head for business; good businessman; shrewd salesman