HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Places

商场 shāngchǎng “shopping mall” in Chinese

Traditional 商場

What 商场 means

  1. shopping mall
  2. shopping centre
  3. department store
  4. emporium
  5. the business world

Measure word 家 jiā · 一家商场 yì jiā shāngchǎng

How to say 商场

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale商shāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale场chǎng3rd tone, dipping

商场 in a sentence

  1. 我想去商场。

    Wǒ xiǎng qù shāngchǎng.

    I’d like to go to the shopping centre.

    Sentence #5556118 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你知道商场什么时候关门吗？

    Nǐ zhīdao shāngchǎng shénme shíhou guānmén ma?

    Do you know when the shopping centre closes?

    Sentence #9969145 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 找个学校附近的商场。

    Zhǎo ge xuéxiào fùjìn de shāngchǎng.

    Find a shopping centre near the school.

    Sentence #13543859 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 商场 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 商 (shāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
商shāngcommerce
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 丷eight form of 八 · bā
  • 冏bright · jiǒngMeaning part

冏 hints at the meaning (bright); 章 (zhāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with shāng.

The character 场 (chǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
场chǎnglarge place used for a specific purpose
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 勿must not · wù

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 昜 (yáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with chǎng.

Memory aidEarth 土 gives the meaning: an open piece of ground.

How to write 商场

商 11 strokes · 场 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 商场

Words with 商

商店shāngdiàn · shop商量shāngliang · to consult商业shāngyè · business经商jīngshāng · to be in business商品shāngpǐn · commodity商务shāngwù · business磋商cuōshāng · to consult协商xiéshāng · to consult智商zhìshāng · IQ商标shāngbiāo · trademark

Words with 场

机场jīchǎng · airport球场qiúchǎng · (sports) court场chǎng · measure word for events: a spell (of rain)广场guǎngchǎng · public square操场cāochǎng · playground市场shìchǎng · marketplace当场dāngchǎng · on the spot场所chǎngsuǒ · place现场xiànchǎng · scene场合chǎnghé · occasion

More words: Places & Getting Around

进来jìnlái · to come in进去jìnqù · to go in里面lǐmiàn · inside路上lùshang · on the road上来shànglái · to come up上去shàngqù · to go up外国wàiguó · foreign (country)外面wàimiàn · outside

FAQs

商场 (shāngchǎng) means “shopping mall” or “shopping centre”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it shāngchǎng: shāng with a 1st tone, then chǎng with a 3rd 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, 商场 is written 商場. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 家 (jiā). For example, one shopping mall is 一家商场 (yì jiā shāngchǎng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shangchang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 商场 from the suggestions. Typing shangchang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
商场 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older 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.