商売

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しょう
Grade: 3
ばい
Grade: 2
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
商賣 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) しょーばい [shóꜜòbàì] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA(key): [ɕo̞ːba̠i]

Noun

(しょう)(ばい) • (shōbai

  1. business
  2. occupation

Synonyms

Verb

(しょう)(ばい)する • (shōbai suruintransitive suru (stem (しょう)(ばい) (shōbai shi), past (しょう)(ばい)した (shōbai shita))

  1. do business; conduct trade
    • 2025 April 21, 青山繁晴 [Shigeharu Aoyama], quotee, “第217回国会 参議院 決算委員会 第4号 令和7年4月21日 [217th Diet House of Councilors Settlement Committee No. 4 April 21, 2025]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎[1], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library], retrieved 15 September 2025:
      私たちは連携していますが、私たちも商売しないので売りませんが、実は、それを阻んでいるのは国の行政なんです。
      Watashi-tachi wa renkei shite imasu ga, watashi-tachi mo shōbai shinai node uri masen ga, jitsu wa, sore o habande iru no wa kuni no gyōsei nan desu.
      We work together, but we don't do business, so we don't sell anything, but the truth is, it's the national government that's preventing this.

Conjugation

References

  • 商売”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.