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
- —商売人merchant; trader; shrewd businessman; expert (in a trade or profession); professional; woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); demimondaine
- —商売敵business rival; professional jealousy
- —商売柄nature of one's business; business instinct
- —商標権trademark rights
- —商品学(study of) merchandising
- —商務官commercial attache
- —商務省Department of Commerce
- —商用化commercialization; commercialisation
- —商用語commercial term
- —商用文business correspondence
- —水商売chancy trade or business with uncertain profitability; night entertainment business (e.g. hostess bar); nightlife business
- —刀剣商sword dealer
- —両替商money-exchange business
- —旅商人peddler
- —闇商人black marketeer
- —書籍商bookstore; bookshop
- —石材商stone dealer
- —隊商宿caravansary; caravanserai
- —陶器商crockery dealer; china shop
- —材木商lumber dealer