倾销
qīng xiāo · HSK 7
to dump
📦💸 倾 tip-over/pour-out + 销 sell = pour your goods onto a market dirt-cheap = dumping
Economic dumping: flooding a foreign market with goods below cost. 倾 means to tip over or pour out, 销 means to sell or market, so the compound literally reads as pouring out stock to sell. The qing in 倾 also starts the word 倾倒 (to tip over).
销 — metal radical 钅 + 肖 xiāo (phonetic)
销 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The metal radical 钅 (金) signals a meaning related to metal, while 肖 supplies the sound xiāo. It originally meant to melt or smelt metal, then extended figuratively to 'dissolve away,' and later to modern senses like 'sell' (move goods away) and 'cancel/expend.'