Chinese symbol for “commercialize”

商业化

shāng yè huà

Traditional: 商業化

to commercialize

The closest CC-CEDICT match for commercialize is 商业化 (shāng yè huà), defined as: to commercialize.

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Characters and stroke order

商 shāng

commerce, business, trade

radical 30 ⼝ · 11 strokes

业 yè

business, profession; to study, to work

radical 1 ⼀ · 5 strokes

化 huà

to change, to convert, to reform; -ize

radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

業 yè

Related words

Other words that share a character with 商业化.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
商业 (商業)	shāng yè	business; trade
商品	shāng pǐn	commodity; goods; merchandise; measure word: 件 (jiàn)
商店	shāng diàn	store; shop; measure word: 家 (jiā)
商人	shāng rén	merchant; businessman
协商 (協商)	xié shāng	to consult with; to talk things over
商务 (商務)	shāng wù	commercial affairs; commercial
企业 (企業)	qǐ yè	company; firm; enterprise; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā)
专业 (專業)	zhuān yè	specialty; specialized field
文化	wén huà	culture; civilization

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.