双12购物

雙12購物
Shuāng shí'èr gòuwù
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 Double Twelve shopping
  2. 2 December 12 e-commerce sale (the smaller follow-up to Double Eleven)

Examples

HSK 4
Shuāng shí èr gòuwù bǐ Shuāng shí yī piányi ma?
Is Double Twelve shopping cheaper than Double Eleven?
HSK 6
Shuāng shí èr gòuwù wǒ zhǐ mǎi le yìxiē rìyòngpǐn.
For Double Twelve shopping I only bought a few daily essentials.

Tips

culture
Launched 2011 by Taobao as a smaller December companion to 11. Originally pitched at smaller merchants and SMEs that couldn't compete on the main November date. Lower discounts and traffic than 11, but useful for picking up items that sold out a month earlier; sometimes positioned as 'the year-end touch-up sale'.
usage
Read 'Shuāng shí'èr gòuwù'. The 12 here stays in Arabic numerals in branding, just like 11. By 2024 12 had been partly absorbed into 年货节 (Lunar New Year shopping), reducing its standalone heft.

Stroke Order

shuāng
gòu