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Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
Apparent
章 冏 ⿱⿱亠丷冏
Mandarin
shang1
English
Definitions
commerce; consult; business; to discuss; merchant; trade
Mnemonic
To know each section 章 from the inside 冏 out
Etymology
Notes
This character was originally composed of fireplace 丙 with bitter 䇂 at the top – if an abbreviation of 章 was such from the earliest times