HSK 5 · Work

商业 shāngyè “business” in Chinese

Traditional 商業

What 商业 means

  1. business
  2. trade
  3. commerce

How to say 商业

  • 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 fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale业yè4th tone, falling

商业 in a sentence

  1. 英语在商业中很有用。

    Yīngyǔ zài shāngyè zhōng hěn yǒuyòng.

    English is useful in business.

    Sentence #811904 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 城里的商业区有很多旅馆。

    Chéng lǐ de shāngyè qū yǒu hěn duō lǚguǎn.

    There are lots of hotels in the city’s business district.

    Sentence #2635878 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 我坚信他在商业界会有所作为。

    Wǒ jiānxìn tā zài shāngyè jiè huì yǒusuǒzuòwéi.

    I’m sure he’ll go far in the business world.

    Sentence #1408083 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 商业 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 业 (yè) drawn as one shape
业yèline of business

业 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 商业

商 11 strokes · 业 5 strokes

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

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

Words related to 商业

Words with 商

商店shāngdiàn · shop商场shāngchǎng · shopping mall商量shāngliang · to consult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 业

作业zuòyè · school assignment毕业bìyè · graduation专业zhuānyè · major (at university)职业zhíyè · occupation业余yèyú · spare-time工业gōngyè · industry农业nóngyè · agriculture企业qǐyè · company失业shīyè · unemployment行业hángyè · trade

More words: Work & Career

企业qǐyè · company人事rénshì · personnel人员rényuán · staff日程rìchéng · schedule设计shèjì · to design失业shīyè · unemployment实习shíxí · to do an internship收据shōujù · receipt

FAQs

商业 (shāngyè) means “business” or “trade”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shāngyè: shāng with a 1st tone, then yè with a 4th 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, 商业 is written 商業. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shangye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 商业 from the suggestions. Typing shangye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
商业 is an HSK 5 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.