双11

雙11
Shuāngshíyī
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Double 11 (November 11 shopping festival, China's biggest e-commerce sale)
  2. 2 Singles' Day

Examples

HSK 3
Jīnnián shuāng shí yī wǒ huā le sānqiān duō.
I spent over three thousand on Double 11 this year.
HSK 7-9
Shuāng shí yī de zhékòu bǐ píngshí dàduō le.
The discounts on Double 11 are much bigger than usual.
HSK 7-9
Shuāng shí yī dàngtiān Táobǎo fǎngwènliàng chuàng lìshǐ xīngāo.
On Double 11 day, Taobao's traffic hit a historical high.

Tips

culture
Started in 2009 by Alibaba's Tmall, turning the pre-existing 光棍节 ('Singles' Day,' named for the four '1's in 11/11) into the world's largest online shopping event. Now runs for multiple weeks with pre-sale deposits and partial-payment games.

In Pop Culture

光棍节 Guānggùnjié
Singles' Day
Student-culture origin of 11/11, later commercialized into the shopping festival
双12 shuāng shí'èr
Double 12
December 12, smaller follow-up shopping festival

Stroke Order

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