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商販

简商贩 · 繁商販

Mandarin · pinyin shāng fàn

trader
peddler

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商: shāng · commerce, business, trade
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贩: fàn · peddler, hawker, street merchant

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1–4 · shang1 fan4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

soeng1 faan2 · soeng1 faan3

Cantonese word readings for 商販. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

(countable) small retailer; peddler (Classifier: 名 m; 位 m; 個／个 m)

verb

(Classical, intransitive) to do business; to trade

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