商贸城

商貿城

shāngmàochéng

noun

Measure Word

一座商贸城 zuò

Meanings

1 wholesale market complex
2 trade city
3 commerce mall

Characters

commerce, trade

city, large complex

Examples

义乌国际商贸城是世界最大的小商品批发市场。

Yìwū guójì shāngmàochéng shì shìjiè zuì dà de xiǎo shāngpǐn pīfā shìchǎng.

Yiwu International Trade City is the world's largest wholesale market for small commodities.

商贸城里什么都能买到。

Shāngmàochéng lǐ shénme dōu néng mǎi dào.

You can buy anything inside the wholesale complex.

Tips

culture

商贸城 is a distinctively Chinese retail category: huge multi-floor bazaar buildings stuffed with tiny wholesale stalls, each specialized (one floor of buttons, one of sneakers, etc.). The archetype is Yiwu's 国际商贸城 — 75,000+ stalls on ~5 million m² — which supplies global small-goods chains.

Stroke Order

商 shāng

贸 mào

城 chéng