HSK 6 · Money

畅销 chàngxiāo “best-selling” in Chinese

Traditional 暢銷

What 畅销 means

  1. best-selling
  2. in great demand
  3. to sell well
  4. bestselling
  5. chart-topping

How to say 畅销

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale畅chàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale销xiāo1st tone, high and level

畅销 in a sentence

  1. 她抓紧时间地阅读一本畅销小说。

    Tā zhuājǐn shíjiān de yuèdú yì běn chàngxiāo xiǎoshuō.

    She wasted no time in reading a best-selling novel.

    Sentence #785084 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 畅销 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 畅 (chàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
畅chàngfree
  • 申to report · shēnMeaning part
  • 昜bright · yángSound part

申 hints at the meaning (to report); 昜 (yáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with chàng.

The character 销 (xiāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
销xiāoto melt
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 肖to resemble · xiàoSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 肖 (xiào) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiāo.

How to write 畅销

畅 8 strokes · 销 12 strokes

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畅销 (chàngxiāo) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 畅销 (chàngxiāo). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 畅销

Words with 畅

畅通chàngtōng · unimpeded舒畅shūchàng · happy

Words with 销

销售xiāoshòu · to sell撤销chèxiāo · to cancel销毁xiāohuǐ · to destroy (by burning or melting)报销bàoxiāo · to claim reimbursement推销tuīxiāo · to promote

More words: Money & Economy

彩票cǎipiào · lottery ticket财务cáiwù · financial affairs财政cáizhèng · public finance偿还chánghuán · to repay产业chǎnyè · industry钞票chāopiào · banknote成本chéngběn · cost (of production)成交chéngjiāo · to close a deal

FAQs

畅销 (chàngxiāo) means “best-selling” or “in great demand”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chàngxiāo: chàng with a 4th tone, then xiāo with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 畅销 is written 暢銷. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type changxiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 畅销 from the suggestions. Typing changxiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
畅销 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.