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销售

xiāo shòu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 銷售

销售 (xiāo shòu) means "to sell; sales". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 销售 means

1. to sell
2. to market
3. sales (representative, agreement etc)

The characters in 销售

• 销xiāoto melt (metal); to cancel; to annul; to sell
• 售shòu(bound form) to sell; to retail; (literary) to carry out (a plan or intrigue etc)

Example sentences

• 今年销售会翻番。
  Jīnnián xiāoshòu huì fānfān.
  Sales should double this year.
• 谁负责销售部门？
  Who's in charge of the sales section?
• 销售率正在急剧下滑。
  Xiāoshòu lǜ zhèngzài jíjù xiàhuá.
  The sales are slipping.
• 汤姆以七折销售T恤。
  Tom sells T-shirts at a 30 percent discount.
• 在第三季时销售跌了下来。
  Zài dì sān jì shí xiāoshòu diē le xiàlai.
  Sales fell off in the third quarter.
• 销售区相对来说不算拥挤。
  The sales floor was relatively uncrowded.

Words starting with 销售

• 销售额xiāo shòu ésales figure; total income from sales; turnover
• 销售点xiāo shòu diǎnpoint of sale (POS); checkout; retail outlet
• 销售时点xiāo shòu shí diǎnpoint of sale
• 销售时点情报系统xiāo shòu shí diǎn qíng bào xì tǒngpoint of sale system

Sounds the same

Read xiāo shòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 消瘦to waste away; to become thin
• 消受to bear; to enjoy (usually in negative combination, meaning unable to enjoy)

Where 销售 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Commerce, Products & Business (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiāo shòu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.