生意 (saang1 ji3 | sheng1 yi5) : business

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生意

saang1 ji3

sheng1 yi5

business; trade; sales; deal; bargain

Classifier: 筆

Level: 2 Google Frequency: 2,660,000

This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

生意

This word has been viewed 5432 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by claw on 25th Jul 2004 10:36 and last edited on 3rd Oct 2009 14:23

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Characters in this word:

生 saang1 sang1 - born; grow; life; alive; unripe
意 ji3 - wish; meaning; expect

7 compounds containing this word:

生意佬 - merchant
生意人 - businessman
做生意 - to do business; to run a business; to be a businessman
斟生意 - talk business
拉生意 - bring in business (lit., "pull in business"); canvass
生意興隆 - (to wish a business owner's) business to be thriving
小生意 - small business

Showing all 6 examples containing 生意

你想學做生意？
So you want to be a businessman?
[Lit. you want study do business? More direct translation: You want to study how to do business? This is a good example of a serial verb construction. There are three in a row here (想學做) but more are possible.]

以前呢度啲生意重做得下嘅，但而家就喎呵囉粵
Doing business here used to be all right, but now, it's over.

呢盤生意係蝕本生意嚟㗎粵
This venture... is loss-making.
[Lit. this [counter] business is loss-making business [explanatory particle]]

你想學做生意呢，第一樣嘢就係要學奸粵
If you wanna be a businessman, the first thing you gotta learn is how to play dirty.
[Lit. you want study do business, number one [counter] thing is-exactly study wickedness]

我睇都係買屋比較揸拿，好過投資喺啲小生意上粵
I am of the view that buying property has more assurance, better than investing in small businesses.

旅遊業者不須擔心少了某種噱頭十足的用語而流失生意國
The travel industry should not be unduly worried about businesses badly affected due to the cessation in the use of gimmicky linguistics of their promotions.

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