畅销
chàngxiāo · HSK 7
sell well
🔥💰 CHANT your sales pitch so smoothly they ALL buy — sells like crazy
畅 (chàng) means smooth/unimpeded, 销 (xiāo) means to sell. Together: selling so smoothly the stock flies off shelves. The CHANG sound echoes chant — a merchant chanting prices at a bustling market stall.
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.'