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
- —商売繁盛thriving (prosperous) business; rush of business
- —点検商法unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items
- —殿様商売dilettantish business; amateurish business
- —殿様商法amateurish way of doing business
- —内職商法work-at-home scheme (scam in which the offer of a highly paid work-at-home job is used to lure victims into paying substantial upfront costs)
- —便乗商法piggybacking marketing; method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.)
- —福祉商法unscrupulous business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience; sales methods in which someone falsely claims to represent a charitable organization
- —問題商法unscrupulous business practices; fraudulent business practices; crooked business practices
- —霊視商法fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits)
- —耐久商品durable (consumer) goods
- —武器商人arms dealer
- —商談成立conclusion (completion) of negotiations
- —商品番号item number; product ID number; reference number
- —主力商品leading product; flagship product; top product
- —対抗商品competing product
- —重商政策mercantilist policy
- —商業ビルcommercial building
- —農商務省Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce (1881-1925)
- —通商条約treaty of commerce
- —開運商法fraudulent business of selling goods by claiming they will bring supernatural benefits