商品房

shāngpǐnfáng
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 commercial housing
  2. 2 commodity housing (privately-owned, market-traded)

Examples

Tā zài Běijīng mǎi le yí tào shāngpǐnfáng.
He bought a commercial-housing unit in Beijing.
Shāngpǐnfáng de jiàgé bǐ jīngjì shìyòng fáng gāo de duō.
Commercial housing is much more expensive than affordable housing.

Tips

culture
Contrasts with 经济适用 (government-subsidized housing) and 保障房 (social housing). 商品房 is the standard market-rate apartment type that dominates urban China since the 1998 housing reform.

Stroke Order

shāng
pǐn
fáng