差价

差價
chājià
noun #42,541

Meanings

  1. 1 price difference
  2. 2 spread (between buy and sell prices)
  3. 3 margin

Examples

Tā kào zhuàn chājià fā le cái.
He got rich by pocketing the price spread.
Jìnkǒu chē hé guóchǎn chē zhī jiān chājià hěn dà.
There's a big price gap between imported and domestic cars.

Tips

usage
The classic 'middleman' verb 差价 ('earn the price difference') is a near-idiom for arbitrage or markup. Distinguish (chā, 'difference') from (chà, 'poor/bad') — same character, different reading.

Stroke Order

chà
jià