販売

はんばい · hanbai · JLPT N3 · noun

marketing

🏷️💴 販 = trade (貝 shell-money radical) + 売 = sell: trade-and-sell = sales

販 holds the 貝 shell radical, which marks money and trade because shells were once used as currency. 売 (uri) is the everyday verb for selling, as in 売る. Put them together and you get commercial selling, as in 販売機 (vending machine).

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