siu1 sau6銷售销售
Jyutpingsiu1 sau6
Yalesīu sauh
Definition
To sell or market goods and services.
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How it's used
Used primarily in formal business, marketing, or professional contexts rather than casual conversation. While it refers to the act of selling, it carries a sense of commercial scale or strategic planning that everyday words like 賣 do not possess. It is common to see this in corporate reports or official advertisements.
Examples
Their company sold a lot of new products this year.
What kind of goods does this shop mainly sell?
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using this in casual social settings, such as saying you are selling your old bike to a friend, as it sounds overly stiff and bureaucratic. Use 賣 instead for personal transactions.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
