外贸
wàimào
foreign trade
Characters in this word
贸 mào
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 贝 — sea shell
- Made of
- 卯 4th terrestrial branch 贝 sea shell
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 外贸企业若只依赖低价竞争，很容易在关税变化中失去主动权。 Wàimào qǐyè ruò zhǐ yīlài dījià jìngzhēng, hěn róngyì zài guānshuì biànhuà zhōng shīqù zhǔdòngquán. If foreign-trade enterprises rely only on low-price competition, they can easily lose the initiative when tariffs change.
- 这家公司做外贸十年了，客户在好几个国家。 Zhè jiā gōngsī zuò wàimào shí nián le, kèhù zài hǎo jǐ ge guójiā. This company has been doing foreign trade for ten years, with customers in quite a few countries.
- 外贸订单比去年增加了不少，大家都很高兴。 Wàimào dìngdān bǐ qùnián zēngjiā le bùshǎo, dàjiā dōu hěn gāoxìng. Foreign trade orders have increased a lot compared with last year, and everyone is very happy.
Related words
- 国外 guówài abroad, overseas
- 外 wài outside, outer
- 外边 wàibian outside
- 外国 wàiguó foreign country
- 外语 wàiyǔ foreign language
- 外地 wàidì another place; out of town
- 外卖 wàimài takeout delivery
- 以外 yǐwài outside; except for
- 另外 lìngwài other; in addition
- 外交 wàijiāo diplomacy
- 外面 wàimiàn outside
- 外文 wàiwén foreign language; foreign writing