电商

電商

diànshāng

noun

Measure Word

一家电商 jiā

Meanings

1 e-commerce
2 e-commerce platform / business

Characters

electric / electronic

commerce / trade

Examples

中国的电商行业发展非常快。

Zhōngguó de diànshāng hángyè fāzhǎn fēicháng kuài.

China's e-commerce industry is developing extremely fast.

她在一家电商公司做运营。

Tā zài yī jiā diànshāng gōngsī zuò yùnyíng.

She does operations at an e-commerce company.

Tips

usage

Abbreviation of 电子商务 (electronic commerce). Now also used as a count noun: 跨境电商 (cross-border e-commerce), 直播电商 (livestream commerce), 社交电商 (social commerce). The major Chinese players are 淘宝/天猫 (Alibaba), 京东 (JD), 拼多多 (Pinduoduo), 抖音电商 (Douyin).

Stroke Order

电 diàn

商 shāng