"商人" meaning in Chinese

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Noun

IPA: /ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /sœːŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Sinological-IPA], /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /siɔŋ³³ lin²⁴/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /siaŋ³³⁻²³ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/ [Sinological-IPA, Teochew], /ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/, /sœːŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/, /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/, /siɔŋ³³ lin²⁴/, /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/, /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/, /siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/, /siaŋ³³⁻²³ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/, /sɑ̃⁵⁵ n̠ʲin²¹/ Chinese transliterations: shāngrén [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄕㄤ ㄖㄣˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo], soeng¹ jan⁴ [Cantonese, Jyutping], siong-lîn [Hokkien, POJ], siong-jîn [Hokkien, POJ], siang-jîn [Hokkien, POJ], siang¹ ring⁵ [Peng'im, Teochew], ¹saon-gnin, shāngrén [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄕㄤ ㄖㄣˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], shangrén [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], shang¹-jên² [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], shāng-rén [Mandarin, Yale, standard], shangren [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], шанжэнь [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], šanžɛnʹ [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], soeng¹ jan⁴ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Jyutping], sēung yàhn [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Yale], soeng¹ jan⁴ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Pinyin], sêng¹ yen⁴ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong], siong-lîn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], siongliin [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], siong-jîn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], siongjiin [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], siang-jîn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], siangjiin [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], siang jîng [POJ, Teochew], ¹saon-gnin [Wu], saon^平 nyin [Wu], ¹saan-nyin [Wu], /sɑ̃⁵⁵ n̠ʲin²¹/ [Wu], syang nyin [Middle-Chinese], /*s-taŋ ni[ŋ]/ [Baxter-Sagart, Old-Chinese], /*hljaŋ njin/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Etymology: ;person of the Shang dynasty ;merchant, trader Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 商人
  1. merchant; businessperson
    Sense id: en-商人-zh-noun-nBQhm0u9
  2. person of the Shang dynasty Categories (topical): Business, Occupations, People
    Sense id: en-商人-zh-noun-Csye10tx Disambiguation of Business: 44 56 Disambiguation of Occupations: 31 69 Disambiguation of People: 6 94 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Intermediate Mandarin Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 44 56 Disambiguation of Intermediate Mandarin: 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 商民 (shāngmín) [formal], 生意人 (shēngyirén), 生意佬 (saang1 ji3 lou2) (english: businessman) [Cantonese], 生理人 [Hakka, Hokkien], 老客 (lǎokè) [literary], 賈人 (gǔrén) [literary], 贾人 (gǔrén) [literary]

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          "ref": "其商人通賈,倍道兼行,夜以續日,千里而不遠者,利在前也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
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      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
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      "zh-pron": "soeng¹ jan⁴"
    },
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      "tags": [
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        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sēung yàhn"
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    {
      "tags": [
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        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Pinyin"
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      "zh-pron": "soeng¹ jan⁴"
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      "tags": [
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        "Hong-Kong"
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      "zh-pron": "sêng¹ yen⁴"
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      "ipa": "/sœːŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/",
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        "Hong-Kong",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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      "tags": [
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        "Tai-lo"
      ],
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siongliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ³³ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siong-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siongjiin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siang-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
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        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siangjiin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/",
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        "Zhangzhou"
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        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siang jîng"
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        "Teochew"
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "¹saon-gnin"
    },
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        "Wu"
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      "zh-pron": "saon^平 nyin"
    },
    {
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        "Wu"
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      "zh-pron": "¹saan-nyin"
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            "j2t": "",
            "j3": "",
            "j3t": "",
            "j4": "",
            "j4t": "",
            "jdesc": "",
            "jje2": "",
            "jje2t": "",
            "jje3": "",
            "jje3t": "",
            "jje4": "",
            "jje4t": "",
            "jjedesc": "",
            "jjet": "",
            "jt": "",
            "k2": "",
            "k2t": "",
            "k3": "",
            "k3t": "",
            "k4": "",
            "k4t": "",
            "kdesc": "",
            "kt": "",
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            "o2": "",
            "o2t": "",
            "o3": "",
            "o3t": "",
            "o4": "",
            "o4t": "",
            "odesc": "",
            "ot": "",
            "s": "商%人",
            "v": "商人",
            "v2": "",
            "v2t": "",
            "v3": "",
            "v3t": "",
            "v4": "",
            "v4t": "",
            "vdesc": "",
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          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (商人):\n* → Japanese: 商(しょう)人(にん) (shōnin)\n* → Korean: 상인(商人) (sang'in)\n* → Vietnamese: thương nhân (商人)",
          "name": "CJKV/code"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "",
            "2": "しょう%にん",
            "3": "상인",
            "4": "thương nhân",
            "j": "商%人"
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (商人):\n* → Japanese: 商(しょう)人(にん) (shōnin)\n* → Korean: 상인(商人) (sang'in)\n* → Vietnamese: thương nhân (商人)",
          "name": "CJKV"
        }
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "商人",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations",
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "Indian merchants",
          "roman": "Yìndù shāngrén",
          "text": "印度商人",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "When the merchant engages in trade and travels twice the ordinary distance in a day, uses the night to extend the day, and covers a thousand li without considering it too far, it is because profits lies ahead.",
          "ref": "其商人通賈,倍道兼行,夜以續日,千里而不遠者,利在前也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "其商人通贾,倍道兼行,夜以续日,千里而不远者,利在前也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Guanzi, 5ᵗʰ century BCE to 220 CE\nQí shāngrén tōnggǔ, bèidào jiānxíng, yè yǐ xù rì, qiānlǐ ér bùyuǎn zhě, lì zài qián yě. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "merchant; businessperson"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "merchant",
          "merchant"
        ],
        [
          "businessperson",
          "businessperson"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "What are called the Shang were the airs and words transmitted from the five Thearchs; and having been remembered by the people of Shang, we call them the Shang.",
          "ref": "故商者,五帝之遺聲也。商人識之,故謂之商。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "故商者,五帝之遗声也。商人识之,故谓之商。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: The Book of Rites, c. 4ᵗʰ – 2ⁿᵈ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version\nGù shāng zhě, wǔdì zhī yíshēng yě. Shāngrén shí zhī, gù wèi zhī shāng. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "person of the Shang dynasty"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shāngrén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄕㄤ ㄖㄣˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "soeng¹ jan⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siong-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siong-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siang-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siang¹ ring⁵"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "¹saon-gnin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shāngrén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄕㄤ ㄖㄣˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shangrén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shang¹-jên²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shāng-rén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shangren"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "шанжэнь"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "šanžɛnʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "soeng¹ jan⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sēung yàhn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "soeng¹ jan⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sêng¹ yen⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sœːŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siong-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siongliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ³³ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siong-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siongjiin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siang-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siangjiin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siang jîng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siaŋ³³⁻²³ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "¹saon-gnin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "saon^平 nyin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "¹saan-nyin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/sɑ̃⁵⁵ n̠ʲin²¹/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syang nyin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Baxter-Sagart",
        "Old-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*s-taŋ ni[ŋ]/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*hljaŋ njin/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ siong-jîn /"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sœːŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ³³ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/siaŋ³³⁻²³ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/sɑ̃⁵⁵ n̠ʲin²¹/"
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      "other": "[ŋ]"
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      ],
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    },
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      "roman": "shēngyirén",
      "word": "生意人"
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        "Hokkien"
      ],
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        "literary"
      ],
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      ],
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        "literary"
      ],
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