义乌 (Yìwū): Yiwu (county-level city in Zhejiang, home to the world's largest small-commodity wholesale market)

Meanings

1 Yiwu (county-level city in Zhejiang, home to the world's largest small-commodity wholesale market)

Characters

义

Examples

义乌是全球最大的小商品批发市场。

Yìwū shì quánqiú zuìdà de xiǎoshāngpǐn pīfā shìchǎng.

Yiwu is the largest wholesale market for small commodities in the world.

很多外国商人常年住在义乌。

Hěn duō wàiguó shāngrén chángnián zhù zài Yìwū.

Many foreign merchants live in Yiwu year-round.

Tips

culture

Yiwu's International Trade City (义乌国际商贸城) stocks roughly 2 million products across 75,000 booths. Much of the world's Christmas decorations, election merchandise, and carnival prizes is shipped from here — the city is nicknamed China's 'trinket capital'.

memory

义 (righteousness) + 乌 (crow/black). Picture a crow holding a tiny 'made in Yiwu' trinket — the township was historically named after a legend of filial crows feeding a son mourning his parents.