Chinese Character Wiki
销

xiāo

melt, sell

Phonosemantic compound. 钅 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound. Simplified form of 銷.

Components
钅 meaning component

钅  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

钅 is a component form of 金.

肖 sound component

肖  Sound component

xiào, xiāo

  

look like

Evolution

销 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
销 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
销 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
销 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

销 (銷) 

xiāo

melt, fuse; market, sell; to pass time, finish, cancel; to melt (metal); to cancel or annul; to sell; to spend; to fasten with a bolt; bolt or pin

Most common words with 销
Freq.
Word
Meaning

销售

to sell

撤销

to repeal

推销

to market

营销

marketing

销量

sales volume

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 28.1275% of movies

1219th most common character in movies

904th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

銷

Unicode

U+9500


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