贩
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to deal in; to buy and sell; to trade in; to retail; to peddle
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 貝 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 販
- Common rank
- #2,089
- Unicode
- U+8D29
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 贩
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自动贩卖机 | vending machine | |
| 二道贩子 | middleman; buyer and seller | |
| 人口贩运 | trafficking in persons; human trafficking | |
| 人贩子 | human trafficker | |
| 贩卖人口 | trafficking in human beings | |
| 小商贩 | small trader; peddler | |
| 量贩式 | at wholesale price | |
| 贩夫俗子 | peddlers and common people; lower class | |
| 票贩子 | ticket scalper | |
| 贩卖机 | (Tw) vending machine | |
| 量贩店 | wholesale store; hypermarket | |
| 贩子 | trafficker; dealer; monger; peddler | |
| 小贩 | peddler; hawker | |
| 鱼贩 | fishmonger | |
| 量贩 | to sell in a large amount at a lower price per unit | |
| 贩运 | to transport (for sale); to traffic (in sth) | |
| 贩夫 | peddler; street vendor | |
| 毒贩 | drug dealer; drug trafficker | |
| 贩毒 | to traffic narcotics; drugs trade; opium trade | |
| 商贩 | trader; peddler |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 反 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 反 sound part | reverse, opposite; contrary, anti- | |
| 板 | board, plank; plate, slab; unnatural, stiff | |
| 饭 | meal, food; cooked rice | |
| 版 | printing block, edition; register; volume, version | |
| 扳 | to drag, to pull; to twist | |
| 坂 | hillside, slope | |
| 阪 | hillside, slope | |
| 舨 | sampan, wooden boat | |
| 钣 | metal plate; sheet metal | |
| 畈 | field; farm |